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Descendants of 
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T is with some reluctance that I present 
this genealogy of the Sanxay family at 
this time, because I believe that, with no 
very great delay, much additional data 
might be supplied, and its details could 
thus be made more complete. I feel, 
however, it is due to those who have so kindly aided me in 
making its preparation thus far possible, that it should 
not for the above reason be longer withheld. Moreover, 
it is believed that it is not often that genealogical com- 
pilations, covering a period of nearly four hundred years, 
are presented, in which the data will be found to be more 
complete. 

The dates, as given, are well authenticated. In a 
few instances, they are conclusions from evidence not alto- 
gether in accord, but, in those instances, the differences 
are slight, and of no great consequence. In other cases, 

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in which, from conflicts in the evidence, the doubts aris- 
ing are serious, or the differences are considerable, the 
dates are left blank. 

I present, of course, the full genealogical chain. 
But it has also been my good fortune, to collect many in- 
teresting facts about the people who made it up, and, to 
a considerable extent, I can see them in their lives and 
environments, and I feel almost as if I had known them. 
What has been gathered would make a considerable vol- 
ume. It is not now my purpose, however, to present a 
full history, but simply to accompany the genealogy with 
a statement of such facts and circumstances as may be 
necessary to give some proper view of the family, dur- 
ing the period covered, and, as far as may be, of its 
origin. 

The name Sanxay is very ancient. It has been per- 
petuated as the name of a town in the old Province of 
Poitou, France. It is said, that this town must have 
existed as early as A. D. 300, and possibly earlier. As 
France is now constituted, Sanxay is in the Department 
of Vienne, Arrondissement of Poitiers, and Canton of 
Lusignan. It was an old Roman place, a fact revealed 
in the year 1882 by Pere Camille de La Croix, who un- 
covered there some of the finest Gallo-Roman ruins that 
have been discovered in modern times. These include a 
Theatre-Circus, a Temple, a Balneaire d'eau de riviere, 
Thermes, and Hostelries. The dimensions of these struc- 

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tures indicate that the assemblages there were of large 
aggregations of people. The city is supposed to have 
been destroyed by fire in the first half of the fifth cen- 
tury, the coins and medals found in the ruins being those 
from the time of the Emperor Tiberius to that date. The 
temple is said to have been erected to Apollo, who corre- 
sponded to the Gaulish Hesus or Esus. The literature 
of the Archaeological and Antiquarian Societies of Eu- 
rope contains many references to these ruins, and fine 
illustrations have been made of them by Monsieur Jules 
Robuchon of Poitiers, and pubUshed under the approval 
of the Societe des antiquaires de UOuest. The earliest 
illustrations of these ruins I have seen are those published 
in U Illustration J, the w^ell-known pictorial of Paris, issue 
of 28 October, 1882. ]Mr. Robuchon has also pubHshed 
a very beautiful and copious work in twelve volumes, en- 
titled " Pay sages et Monuments du Poitou" and three 
livraisons in Volume II. are devoted to Sanxay. An 
account of the coins taken out of the ruins may be found 
in the Revue Numismatique 3° Ser, Tom. II., p. 459. 
The old Chateau de ]Marconnay is situated near Sanxay. 
The name Sanxay, in its evolution, from as far back 
as the tenth century, has gone tlii'ough various changes, 
having, among other forms, been Sanciaco, Sensiaco, 
Sancai, Sancayo, Xancaye, Xancayie, Sanchay, Sancay, 
Sancaye, Sanccay, Xansay, Sanxais, Sanxai, Sansay, until 
it finally became Sanxay, which has been its fixed form 

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for over one hundred and fifty years. In its Latinized 
form, it has been Senscacus (A. D. 936), Sancaium, San- 
cayum, Sancium, Sansaium, etc. {Records, Abbey St. 
Maixent, Poitou, and D0771 Fontineau Collectioii, etc.) 
The name, as apphed to a person, may also be found as 
of a very early date. For example, there was, in 1240, 
a Guillelmus de Sanceio, and, in 1243, a Johannes de 
Sancaio, as appears from the papers of Alphonse, Comte 
de Poitiers. 

As to the origin of Sanxay as a family name, Wil- 
liam Arthur, in his " Etymological Dictionary of Family 
and Christian Nantes," says it was taken from the town 
of Sanxay, in Poitou, France. It is quite possible that 
this view may be correct, but I am confident it rests on 
nothing more substantial than speculation or conjecture. 
There is nothing in the nature of authentic proof. How 
the name originated, how the town acquired it, or how it 
came to the family, are facts buried too deep in the dim 
vista of the past to render it likely that they will ever be 
known. If the name Sanxay be French in its origin, 
and if it be true, as Camden says, that surnames began 
to be taken in France about the year A. D. 1000, the 
town could hardly have taken its name from the family, 
for it was the name of the town centuries before that 
time. It was probably from some such hypothesis and in- 
ference, that Arthur drew his conclusion that the reverse 
was true, and that the family must have taken its name 

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from the town. But who knows that Saiixay may not 
be simply a GaUic or French form of a Roman name? 
What, if the name had also been in use otherwise than as 
the name of a town? And who knows? What if the 
family be Roman, or otherwise than French, in its origin? 
And it is well known that among the Romans the cog- 
nomeiij, or surname, was in use even before the beginning 
of the Christian era. To enter thus upon the field of 
speculation, is to enter upon one that is practically with- 
out limit, and one that can bring no satisfactory results. 
There have existed in France from very early times 
several families, whose names were spelled in such way 
as to indicate that they might be phases or forms of the 
same name as Sanxay. Some of these families have been 
of high distinction, but whether any one or more of them 
may, or may not, have had an origin in common with the 
Sanxay family, as now known, I have not been able to 
determine. Surnames, long after they came into use, 
were rarely spelled in a fixed way. The same person, in 
writing his name, would spell it in different ways at 
different times, using any combination of letters that 
phonetically would produce the sound. It is interesting 
to note that, even in Spain, a certain phase of the name 
has been found, as will appear from the following. In 
the Guildliall Library, at London, is a photo-lithographic 
copy of an edition printed in Paris in 1493, of a Latin 
translation by Alexander de Cisco, 29 April, 1493, of a 

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letter written by Christopher Columbus to Raphael 
Sanocis, Treasurer of Aragon, giving an account of his 
discoveries. From this it appears that he first sighted 
the shores of the 'New World on Friday, 12 October, 
1492, at two o'clock in the morning. 

But authentic records enable us to identify the 
Sanxay family, as it is now known, as early as the first 
half of the sixteenth century. At this date, we find it in 
the old Province of Saintonge, France, with the fact, per- 
haps, somewhat indicated, that at some time prior thereto 
(just when is not known) the Sanxays had habitated in 
Poitou, from which province the emigration to Saintonge 
was probably made. Here in Saintonge, and at the City 
of Saintes, its ancient capital, it seems that the Sanxays 
were then well established, and were prominently and 
prosperously engaged in the honorable pursuits of busi- 
ness and professional life, and active in the affairs of 
that ancient city. 

Saintes is situated on the Charente River, about 
twenty-eight miles southeast from Rochefort. A pic- 
torial representation of it, as it appeared in 1560, about 
the time of Pierre Sanxay, may be found in Vol. 12 at 
page 135 of the Bulletins of the Societe de Vhistoire du 
protestantisme frangaise. It was an old Roman city, and 
the advent of the Romans there was marked by the build- 
ing of a bridge over the Charente River, at one end of 
which was erected a triumphal arch in honor of Ger- 

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manicus, the Roman general. The arch still stands, hav- 
ing been taken down, however, and reerected as before, 
stone by stone, in another place. An amphitheatre was 
also built, the ruins of which to a considerable extent are 
still preserved. Among the more modern monuments at 
Saintes is a statute in honor of Bernard Palissy, one of 
the most notable characters in its history. The Roman 
name for Saintes, or Xainctes, as it was formerly writ- 
ten, was JNIediolanmn. As France is now constituted, 
Saintes is in the Department of Charente-Inferieure, 
Arrondisement of Saintes, and Canton of Saintes. 

Such is the city in which we find Pierre Sanxay, a 
man distinguished and honored, and Pastor of its Re- 
formed Church. To him, more than to any other man, 
seems to belong the distinction of being the father of the 
Sanxay family. 

Among other Sanxay s, contemporaneous with him, 
and prominent in their way, was one who was in some way 
connected with the La Mothe-Fouque family, which be- 
came so prominently identified with the Protestant cause 
in France. He also resided in Saintonge, but I do not 
know just where. I refer to Guillaume Sanxay, sieur de 
Vimont. He was cousin paternal to JVIarguerite de La 
^lothe-Fouque, comtesse de Sanzay (not Sanxay), 
daughter of Rene de La Clothe, sieur de Saint-Seurin. 
An act of 11 January, 1551, establishes, that, during the 
pendency of some legal proceedings between him and his 

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tenants at St. Seurin, Rene de La Mothe left Saintonge 
and went to Normandie, where he died. He left two 
sons and three daughters, all the daughters being minors, 
and of these daughters, Marguerite was the youngest. 
The said act of 11 January, 1551, between these minor 
children, shows who appeared to constitute the family 
council for them, and among others we find the name 
of said Guillaume Sanxay, and of Pierre de Sanxay, 
sieur de Meshine, also a cousin. The comtesse, it seems, 
had an adventurous life, the particulars of which have 
been recounted. (Journal de comtesse de Sanzay de 
1572 a 161 A. Copie du registre originale donnee par 
M. le Comte Hector de La Ferriere.) I am advised by 
Monsieur Meschinet De Richemond, the veteran arche- 
viste of the Department of the Charente-Inferieure, a 
man who has spent a lifetime in the study of French Prot- 
estant history, and especially of that relating to Sain- 
tonge, that the above-named Guillaume seems well to be 
of the same family with that of Pastor Pierre Sanxay. 

To know Pastor Pierre Sanxay, and those allied to 
him by family ties at Saintes, it is necessary to know the 
times in which they lived, and the circumstances by which 
they were surrounded. The story of these would, in a 
considerable measure, be the story of the Reformation in 
France, which of course cannot be repeated here, yet it 
seems necessary to recall the terrible struggle through 
which the world was then passing, in its efforts to secure 

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the right to hberty of conscience, and an unfettered in- 
tellect. These efforts took form in a movement to estab- 
lish and propagate the Reformed religion. To this move- 
ment the Sanxaj^s at Saintes were miqualifiedly com- 
mitted, and, as Frenchmen, they were Huguenots through 
and through. In France, where they lived, the measures 
adopted in opposition and repression, were characterized 
by a cruelty seldom found in the annals of history. 
Edicts, prompted by considerations of politics, and the 
schemes of a licentious court, were readily issued from 
the throne, to prescribe the inoffensive Huguenots in the 
exercise of their religion, although that religion involved 
no breach of loyalty or duty to the state. Within the 
terms of these edicts, if they could, or without, if neces- 
sary, or without color of authority at all, if it suited them, 
their enemies made them the victims of the halter, the 
flame, and the wild terrors of the mob. These edicts and 
persecutions followed each other in rapid succession, until, 
beginning in 1562, France was plunged into a succession 
of civil wars. It is not surprising, therefore, that almost 
the first circumstance we learn concerning Pierre Sanxay 
is, that, by a decree of the Parliament of Bordeaux, made 
6 April, 1569, he was condemned to death because of his 
religion — for " contumacy " the decree says. His name, 
incorrectly written however, appears in this decree, 
coupled with that of Claude de La Boysiere, the two being 
therein designated " ministers at Saintes.'' 

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This infamous decree included over five hundred 
names, among which we find those of rran9ois Pichon, 
who, it alleged, had been made Mayor of Saintes " by 
the rebels," Jehan, his eldest son, and Odet Colineau of 
Pons, all members of families allied to the Sanxays. It 
also included that of Gabriel de La Mothe, first cousin 
once removed of Rene de La Mothe, of whom mention 
has already been made. The decree provided that all 
those who were condemned by it were to have their heads 
cut off, and placed on the end of a lance at the gates of 
the city; their bodies were to be cut into quarters; their 
lands and goods were to be confiscated and sold, and the 
proceeds of the sales were to be used in repairing churches 
and replacing rehcs; their chateaux and houses were to 
be leveled to the ground, and their estates were to be 
charged with the expense of executing the decree; three 
crosses, each bearing a plaque in bronze, upon which was 
to be inscribed the substance of the decree, were to be 
erected at Bordeaux, Pons, and Saintes. Happily, in 
this instance, the life of Pierre Sanxay was spared. No 
one was beheaded, and, in that respect, the decree was 
not executed, although Boscheron Des Portes in his 
History of the Parliament of Bordeaux, intimates that 
the goods of some of the condemned were confiscated. 
The fact that such a decree could be obtained, under the 
forms of law, in one of the regularly constituted courts of 
Prance, shows the terrible conditions which then pre- 

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vailed, and the terrorism under which men Hke Pierre 
Sanxay, and those ^vhose Hves were regulated by con- 
science, were compelled to live. 

Pierre Sanxay was probably born somewhere about 
the year 1530. His name was sometimes written Pierre 
de Sanxay, and he was sometimes referred to as 7non- 
seigneur and noble homme. Unfortunately the names of 
his parents, and the details of his youth have not come 
down to us, and we do not therefore know how he, and 
all the other Sanxay s, at almost its inception in France, 
became identified wdth the Protestant cause. His birth 
must have been near the time when the Bible was trans- 
lated into French, and the work of that great scholar and 
reformer, Jacques Lefevre D'Etaples, was rapidly mak- 
ing itself felt among the thinking people of France. The 
persecutions, too, must have been under way, while he 
was still in the plastic days of his youth. They were cer- 
tainly in full operation when he reached the period of his 
active manhood. He was at first by profession a master 
apothecary. That profession, as Mr. De Richemond 
writes, was, in the sixteenth century, regarded as being 
of a most honorable character, one entirely consistent with 
the dignity of nobility, as many cases show, and it in- 
cluded among its members veritable savants, which indeed 
they all, as chemists, in a certain measure, had to be. A 
conspicuous example of the apothecaire-savant may be 
found in Samuel Veyrel, the antiquarian scholar, and 

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founder of the museum of antiquities at Saintes. This 
was also the profession of several other Sanxays, who 
lived at Saintes at, and subsequent to, the time of Pierre, 
as our records show\ 

But Pierre Sanxay was also a poet, and he was 
selected, by his intimate friend Bernard Palissy, the fa- 
mous artist in pottery and writer also, to write the intro- 
ductory or prefatory verses to the book of the latter, 
which was entitled " Recepte veritable ^ pa?' laquelle tous 
les hommes de la France pourront, apprendre a multi- 
plier et augmenter leurs thresors." That book, including 
the verses aforesaid, was published in 1563, the year fol- 
lowing Palissy's imprisonment at Bordeaux. It is said 
that only two known copies of it are now extant. One is 
in the library of the British Museum at London, and the 
other is in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. I am for- 
tunate in having a copy of the contract made with the 
printer who printed it. But Palissy was not merely a re- 
nowned artist and a writer of distinction; he was also a 
naturalist, a profound philosopher, and perhaps most of 
all a Reformer. How much Pierre Sanxay admired him, 
and his work, clearly appears from the prefatory verses 
above mentioned, from which the following is an extract: 

" La Grece a regu I'honneur 
De quelque Cariatides; 
L'Egypte, pour la grandeur 
De ses hautes Pyramides. 
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Du sepulchre Carien 
N'est esteinte la memoire; 
L'amphitheatre ancien 
Couronne Caesar de gloire. 

Mais cela n'approche point 
Des rustiques Figulines, 
Que tant et tant bien a poinct, 
Et dextrement imagines. 

A chacun cEuvre il faloit 
Mille milliers de personnes; 
Mais le plus beau n'esgaloit 
Celuy que seul tu fa9onnes. 

Le plus beau a bien este 
Enrichi par eloquence; 
Le tien a plus de beaute 
Que la langue d'elegance." 

Palissy went to Saintes about the year 1539, being 
then about twenty-nine years of age. For the first six- 
teen years he was most constant in devoting himself to 
scientific experiments and the evolution of his art. In 
his writings he tells us of his early efforts there towards 
establishing the Reformed Church, and of its small be- 
ginnings. It began to get a foothold in 1556, and per- 
secutions soon after followed. There was at Saintes an 
unscrupulous and pestiferous attorney named Collar- 
deau, and actuated by sordid motives, and with no zeal 
for religion, he declared to the Bishop at Saintes that 

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the place was full of " Lutherans," and got a com- 
mission to extirpate them. He was rewarded with a 
good sum of deniers for his work. Philebert Hamelin, 
who went about preaching and distributing Bibles, and 
who went to Saintes, and in a sense became its first 
minister, was twice arrested, the last time in 1557, and 
finally, after proceedings before the Parliament of Bor- 
deaux, was hanged and his body burned. In 1562, 
Palissy was arrested in the dead of night, and dragged 
off to Bordeaux to answer before the same tribunal, but 
Constable Montmoranci, who needed his matchless art, 
secured his release by having him appointed " Inventor 
of Rustic Figulines to the King.'' Henry Morley says 
that, no doubt, Pierre Sanxay had in mind the work of 
Pahssy, in the iiistic grotto erected for Montmoranci in 
his gardens at Ecouen, in some of the references he makes 
in his verses to Palissy. Even before 1562, Antoine, Sire 
of Pons, the King's lieutenant in Saintonge, once inter- 
vened to save Palissj^'s workshop at Saintes from anni- 
hilation by the mob. Had it not been for the high and 
unique character of his art, Palissy never would have 
left Saintonge alive.* As it was, in 1564 he removed 
to Paris, under the appointment made by the King 

* Note — Some idea of the beautiful art of Palissy may be obtained from the 
illustrations found in the " Monographie de I'oeuvre de' Barnard Palissi/ suivre 
d' un choix de ses continuations ou imitations dessinee far MM. Carle Delange 
et C. Borneman et accompagnee d' un texte par M. Sanzay, conservateur adjoint 
du Musee du Louvre, et M. Henri Delange." This work may found in many of 
the larger libraries. 

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(Charles IX.) aforesaid, and set up his pottery works 
on the plot of ground assigned him near the Tuileries. 
He escaped in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew by order 
of Catharine de IMedici, the King's mother. In 1575, 
he began at Paris a course of lectures on natural history 
and physics, which were attended by all the learned men 
of the day, and it made known to the world the great 
scientist that he was. ]Many of his views concerning 
nature have been supported by subsequent discoveries, 
and give him a high place among the natural philosophers 
of his day. He died in the Bastile, practically a martyr, 
in 1587. 

But it was as pastor of the Reformed Church at 
Saintes, which Palissy labored so hard to establish, that 
we find the final and distinguishing feature of Pierre 
Sanxay's career. After the death of Philebert HameHn, 
the struggHng church had for a time as minister De La 
Place, who served it until the arrival of Claude de La 
Boysiere, who was sent out from Geneva, where he had 
been schooled in the theology of the new religion. He 
was the La Boysiere who was included with Pierre Sanxay 
in the Bordeaux decree above mentioned. But the first 
really settled pastor seems to have been Pierre Sanxay, 
and the registers of the church, which have come do^m 
to us, begin with him. Shortly prior to the time when 
these registers begin, and about 1568 or 1569, Pierre 
Sanxay was at La Rochelle, probably as a refugee, for, 

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by his Edict of 22 September, 1568, which opened the 
door for decrees hke that of Bordeaux, Charles IX. had 
ordered all Protestant ministers to leave France within 
fifteen days, and Pierre probably needed for a time the 
protection furnished by that great Protestant strong- 
hold. 

The records of the pastoral acts of Pierre Sanxay 
at Saintes begin in October, 1570, after the close of the 
Third Religious War, and the promulgation of the Edict 
of St. Germain. These records do not indicate any suc- 
cessful interruption to the celebration of the cult by him 
until August, 1572. Then came the Massacre of St. 
Bartholemew, one of the blackest stains on human his- 
tory. King Charles forbade, for a time, the Protestants 
from holding any assemblages for worship, public or 
private. For nearly a year not a single pastoral act was 
recorded. Pierre Sanxay again took refuge at La Ro- 
chelle, which became crowded with refugees from Sain- 
tonge and Poitou, including fifty-five pastors and fifty 
Protestant nobles. The celebration of the cult was not 
resumed by him at Saintes until August, 1573, from 
which time it seems to have regularly continued until 10 
July, 1574. After that date the registers show no pas- 
toral acts until 1 January, 1576. These last-named pe- 
riods include the Fourth and Fifth Religious Wars, the 
death of King Charles, and the accession of his brother, 
Henry III., to the throne. From January, 1576, the 

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pastoral acts again appear and continue regularly down 
to the 17th day of June in the same year, at which time 
the pastorate of Pierre Sanxay came to its end by his 
death. 

In those days the Reformed Church had no church 
building in Saintes. In fact, the celebration of the cult 
was prohibited within the walls of the city. Only in the 
suburbs, and at long distances from their homes, were the 
Reformers permitted to hold their services. During the 
pastorate of Pierre Sanxay the church services were 
held, and the sacraments administered, in the Chateaux 
of Magezy, Nieul-Les-Saintes, and Bussac, where places 
were set apart for the exercise of the cult. Fortunately 
the Protestant seigneurs who owned those great fort- 
resses could, as it were, give to the struggling church a 
home within their walls, and thereby secure to its mem- 
bers some of the larger privileges of worship, which, 
even in persecutions, were accorded to the nobles. Here, 
too, in these strongholds, the pastor found a measure of 
protection in the midst of the persecutions and the civil 
wars, and, from the greater means of their owners, the 
larger part of his honorarium was paid, though he' was 
the pastor of the church, and in no proper sense the chap- 
lain to the seigneur. These old castles have been rebuilt, 
and still remain. 

During Pierre Sanxay's pastorate of less than six 
years, notwithstanding the interruptions and the disquie- 

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tude and agitation which covered the whole period, the 
the records of the church show baptisms to the number of 
three hundred and twenty-two. I am fortunate in pos- 
sessing a transcript of them. Among other baptisms by 
Pierre Sanxay I may mention those of Pierre, the son, 
and Jeanne, the daughter, of Samuel Veyrel and Lucie 
Mercier; Anne, daughter of "noble homme " CoUas 
Moyne; Pierre, son of Gillebert, "seigneur de Pous- 
sard"; Jacob, son of Sire Guillaume Martineau; Marie, 
daughter of Abel Berthenet, " seigneur de Robinieres"; 
Samuel, son of Mery Chauvet for whom " noble hoimne " 
Pierre de Villedon " seigneur de IVIagezy " was god- 
father; Marye Sanxay, daughter of the pastor, for whom 
Marguerite d'Aguesseau " dame de Gons " was god- 
mother (baptized by Pastor de La Vallee of Taille- 
bourg) ; Jean, son of Jean Fillier for whom " noble 
homme " Nicolas de Vallee and Fran^oise Vigier, wife of 
Louis de Beauchamps " seigneur de Bussac," were god- 
father and godmother; Pierre, son of Antoine Breti- 
nauld and Fran^oise Farrioulx; Jeanne, daughter of 
" noble homme," Jehan de Sainct Germain, " seigneur de 
Lormont " ; Jean, son of Jean de Robillard, " seigneur 
de Villebon " ; Suzanne, daughter of " noble homme " 
Andre de la Court, " sieur de Maurinat " (baptism by 
Andre Travers, minister of Berneuil) ; Marie, daughter 
of Pierre de Labariere and Marguerite Meschinet, and 
Isaac, son of Louis de Beauchamps and Fran^oise Vi- 

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gier, " seigneur et dame de Bussac," Francois de Beau- 
champs, " seignevir de Sauvigny " and Jeanne de Gon- 
tauld de Biron, " dame de Brisanebourg," being the 
godfather and godmother. His last baptism was that 
of Sara, daughter of Jean Osmond, a surgeon, 17 June, 
1576. 

If I am right as to the time of his birth, Pierre 
Sanxay was about forty-six years of age when he died. 
This probably occurred near the date last mentioned. 
His wife was Jacquette Goy. She belonged to a family 
which was prominent at Saintes, and included, among 
others Pierre Goy, sieur de la Besne, who was Mayor in 
1527, 1553, and 1562, Simon Goy, sieur de la Besne, son 
of Pierre, who was Alderman from 1570 to 1572, Etienne 
Goy, sieur de Treuil et de la Besne, who was Alderman 
in 1600 and ]Mayor in 1603, and Jehan Goy, sieur de la 
Besne, who was Mayor in 1624 and 1631. Pierre Goy 
was also one of the most devoted friends of Bernard 
Palissy. 

Of the children of Pierre Sanxay we have the names 
of four. His only known son was also named Pierre, 
and the daughters were Suzanne, Marie, and Marj^e. Of 
the two latter we have baptismal records in the registers 
of the church at Saintes. The baptism of Suzanne, which 
took place at Pons, or possibly at Saujon, is mentioned 
by Crottet in his " History of the Reformed Church in 
Saintonge.'' It was administered by Pastor Yves Rous- 

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peau, the poet of Pons, and one of the distinguished pas- 
tors of his day.* It is said to have been one of the last 
pastoral acts of his ministry, which was concluded about 
the year 1600 or 1601. It was in that latter year that he 
died at Pons at the house of seigneur de Vallee, where he 
made his home. Suzanne, at the time of her baptism, 
could not have been less than thirty years of age, and it 
seems strange that, according to the usual custom, she 
was not baptized in infancy. Her brother Pierre was 
also unquestionably baptized, although no record of it 
has come to light. 

Another Sanxay at Saintes, a contemporary with 
Pierre, and possibly his brother, was named rran9ois. 
His name was sometimes written Fran9ois de Sanxay. 
He appeared as godfather to Marie Sanxay, daughter of 

* Note — It will be interesting to note that Pastor Yves Rouspeau, who was born 
about 1540, became, early in his youth, a prot^g4 of Antoine, the Sire of Pons, 
and the Sire sent him to Geneva to study the theology of Calvin. Here he 
showed great aptitude in his studies, and subsequently he became a pastor of 
great influence at Pons, the place where he was born, and he did much to make 
the Reformed Church there one of the strongest in Saintonge. The Sire of Pons 
is the same, who, as we have seen, once saved Palissy's work shop from demoli- 
tion. He was a very prominent and active man, and he figured conspicuously in 
the civil wars in Saintonge, as lieutenant there of Henri II. and Charles IX., 
his operations covering the period of the pastoral activity of Pierre Sanxay. He 
was the son of Francis I. and Catharine de Ferrifere, and was born 3 January, 
1510. He married first, Anne de Parthenay, one of the most accomplished 
women in France. She was the daughter of Jean de Parthenay, the Arch- 
bishop, seigneur de Soubisse. She read Latin and Greek fluently, and made her- 
self familiar with the theology of the Reformers, in which she took a deep 
interest. While she lived, the Sire leaned decidedly toward the Protestant cause. 
It was after her death, and his marriage with Marie de Monchenu, dame de 
Massy, that he became so active in the wars against the Protestants. In the 
course of these operations he was once taken prisoner. 

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Pierre, the Pastor, on the occasion of her baptism in 
October, 1570, and INIarie Goy, his wife, appeared as her 
godmother. There were probably two Sanxays by the 
name of Fran9ois, and possibly three. There were cer- 
tainly two, miless, being but one, he married twice, for, 
besides Fran9ois, who married Marie Goy above men- 
tioned, there was a rran9ois who married Marie Du 
Pourtault. They w^ere contemporaries, and each was a 
master apothecary. Then there was a rran9ois, who was 
known as " Hote du Mortier d'Or," and he makes the 
third, unless this designation applied to one of the other 
two, of which there is no known proof. He, too, w^as a 
master apothecary, and he, and the Francois who mar- 
ried ]Marie Du Pourtault, each had a daughter Marie, 
but the latter had many other children besides, as the 
genealogical tables annexed show. Mortier d'Or was 
estate property, situated at or near Saintes, in the part 
now known as the Quarter of St. Eutrope. In this 
quarter the famous church of St. Eutrope now stands, 
named after Eutropius, the first Bishop of Saintes. Mor- 
tier d'Or had formerly been known as " Lioii d'Or," and, 
subsequent to the time of Francois, it became the prop- 
erty of one of the Taboys family, allied to the Sanxays. 
If Fran9ois Sanxay and Marie Goy left any children, 
their names are not known. 

Another Sanxay, among the earliest of those known 
to have lived at or near Saintes, was Jehanne Sanxay, 

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who lived at Archiac, a nearby place. And still another 
Sanxay who lived at Saintes, and who must have been, 
for a time at least, contemporary with Pastor Pierre 
Sanxay, though he was younger than Pierre, was honor- 
able homme, Samuel Sanxay, " docteur en medecine/' 
The references to him show the high esteem in which he 
was held. He married Ehzabeth Fourestier — date not 
known — and between 1599 and 1604 had three cliildren. 
It appears also that some Doctor Samuel Sanxay, 18 
February, 1608, married Suzanne Bertrand. He prob- 
ably was the same Samuel Sanxay, and the circumstance 
shows that, after the year 1603, or thereabouts, Elizabeth 
Fourestier must have died, and that Suzanne Bertrand 
became the Doctor's second wife. 

All the Sanxays above mentioned must have been 
more or less closely related to each other, and the bap- 
tismal records show how, as godfathers and godmothers, 
they became sponsors for the children of each other. 
(See genealogical tables.) I shall not attempt to follow 
them all down, and tell, one by one, what is known of 
their descendants, but it will be necessary to follow, as 
clearly as circumstances will permit, the line which shows 
how the family continues on to its advent in England, 
and from thence to America, and thus I must speak of 
Pierre Sanxay, who was the only known son of Pastor 
Pierre Sanxay, and who had a long and honorable life 
as a merchant at Saintes. 

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We have not the date of his birth, but it must have 
been prior to 1575, and he died about 1640. He married 
Anne Brung (or Brun) prior to 1602. She was the 
daughter of Jacob Brung, and belonged to a family dis- 
tinguished for its notaries royal. In his business as a 
merchant Pierre Sanxay was successful, and he became a 
man of wealth. The frequency with which we find his 
name mentioned in connection with the business trans- 
actions of the leading citizens of Saintes, including such 
men as Samuel Veyrel, son of Samuel Veyi-el, the dis- 
tinguished apothecary and antiquarian, and the public 
spirit he manifested in connection with the municipal af- 
fairs of that city, show his standing among its practical 
business men. In the latter part of his life a remarkable 
Htigation arose out of the sale by him of a large bill of 
goods, in which the Bishop of Bayonne * was concerned. 
Though he duly obtained a judgment in May, 1638, for 
the sum due him for the goods, against Nicollas de Mon- 
taigne, the son and heir of the Bishop, yet by virtue of 
legal entanglements and comphcations, it was not finally 
paid until long after his death, and after the death of his 
son Pierre. The latter made a partial adjustment of the 

* Note — The Bishop of Bayonne was Raymond de Montaigne, ecuyer, seigneur 
de Genez et de la Vallee, &c. He was conseiller du roi, president et lieutenant- 
general au siege presidial de Saintes. These offices he is said to have filled 
with distinction. But he afterwards renounced the world, and, in 1624, became 
an abbot of Sablonceau. In 1630, he was made Bishop of Bayonne, and was 
consecrated at Saintes by the Bishop of that place, 14 July in that year. He 
died in March, 1637. 

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sum due with the dame de Montaigne and damoiselle de 
Navailles, and then, in 1674, the matter was taken up 
anew, and payment was sought, with interest for thirty- 
six years, by Anne Pichon, the widow of the Pierre last 
named, and some final settlement was made with her. 
Pierre Sanxay " marchand," had nine children, and their 
names, and the dates of their birth, may be found in the 
genealogical tables annexed. Of these children we are 
most concerned about Pierre and Josue, because they be- 
came residents of Taillebourg, where the father of our 
ancestor. Rev. Jacques Sanxay, the refugee to England 
(of whom later), is known to have lived. Taillebourg is 
only a short distance from Saintes, and is in the De- 
partment of Charente-Inferieure, Arrondissement of St. 
Jean D'Angely, and Canton of St. Savinien. 

Pierre Sanxay, sieur des Blanchardieres, the eldest 
son of the Pierre last named, was an " avocat au Parle- 
ment de Paris." He was born at Saintes 18 October, 
1605, and died about the year 1674. His name appears 
many times in the notarial records of Montgrand, no- 
tary royal at Taillebourg, and those of other notaries in 
places adjacent to Saintes. In one of these, which has 
come to my notice, he appears in his quality, or title, of 
nohle homme. He was one of the arbitrators selected 26 
December, 1658, by Henry de la Tremoille, Duke of 
Thouars, and Monsieur de Theon, to settle a matter in 
controversy between them. He married Anne Pichon, 

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23 October, 1645, and is known to have had four children, 
viz., Jean Sanxay, sieur des Blanchardieres, who was born 
about 1646, and who died about 1688; Suzanne Sanxay, 
who married noble homme Jean Raboteau, merchant and 
alderman at Saintes, and who is known to have lived as 
late as 1694; Pierre Sanxay, merchant, sieur du Maine- 
Blanc et sieur des Manus-fiefs, who married Anne Na- 
veau 28 June, 1673, and Fran^oise Sanxay, who married 
Jean Favreau, sieur de Touchereau, The Roboteaus be- 
longed to a very old and noble house in France. Agnew 
has considerable to say of them in the third edition of 
his ''Protestant Exiles from France'' This edition 
greatly enlarges the original work, and comprises two 
large volumes. 

Josue Sanxay, sieur de la Besne, the fourth son of 
Pierre Sanxay and Anne Brung, was born at Saintes 27 
August, 1614. He died after May, 1668, and before 
1672, but the precise date is not known. He was a mer- 
chant, and lived at Taillebourg, and he was for a time 
" fermier- general " of the county of Taillebourg. His 
name frequently appears in notarial acts, in conjunction 
with that of his brother Pierre, and in those acts, and 
other documents, he is designated as honorable homme. 
He married Marie Vivier, daughter of Jehan Vivier, 
" avocat au Parleme7it de Bordeaux/'' and Jehanne Sou- 
lard, daughter of noble homme„ Estienne Soulard. Marie 
Vivier was born 23 August, 1621, and was probably mar- 

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ried to Josue Sanxay about the year 1644. The records 
show conclusively that they had a daughter named Ruth, 
but no direct or positive evidence has come to light show- 
ing whether they had other children or not. Ruth Sanxay 
married 6 May, 1668, Daniel Meschinet, " avocat^ sieur 
du Pontreau. He was the son of nohle homme Etienne 
Meschinet sieur du Perchaud, and Rebecca Gerard de la 
Chaussee. The contract of marriage, dated on that day, 
is subscribed by forty-two persons as witnesses, includ- 
ing the contracting parties. The Sanxay signatures to it 
are nine in number, and include those of Ruth herself, 
Josue Sanxay, her father, Pierre Sanxay, " avocat," her 
uncle, another Sanxay, probably Pierre, her cousin, an- 
other Sanxay, whose signature cannot be identified, Fran- 
9oise Sanxay and Suzanne Sanxay, her cousins, sisters of 
Pierre last named, and Anne and Marie Sanxay, yet to be 
ascertained, as we shall see, whether or not thev were 
Ruth's sisters. 

It will be interesting to pause for a moment in our 
narrative, and speak of some of Ruth's relationships. 
Marie Vivier, her mother, had a brother Etienne, " avocat 
au Parlement de Paris" Etienne's daughter, Anne, mar- 
ried Daniel Orillard, who was the last pastor at Saintes 
before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Ruth 
w^as, therefore, cousin by marriage to Daniel Orillard. 
Again Etienne Meschinet, nohle homme, father of Daniel 
Meschinet, who married Ruth Sanxay, had a sister JVIarie, 

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who married Guillaume Rivet, sieur de Champ vernon, a 
distinguished writer and long-time pastor at Taillebourg. 
He was, therefore, uncle by marriage to Ruth Sanxay. 
The more the Sanxay family in France is studied, the 
more fully does it appear that its alliances were with the 
most active adherents of the Protestant cause. 

It is delightful to know that representatives of these 
Vivier and Meschinet families still exist in France. They 
live at La Rochelle, where they are highly respected and 
honored. I refer to Monsieur Louis-Alfred Vivier, 
" juge honoraire du tribunal de La Rochelle" and INIon- 
sieur Meschinet de Richemond, to whom I have already 
referred, and by whose kind favor I have received much 
information about the Sanxays at Saintes and Taille- 
bourg. These gentlemen, though now somewhat ad- 
vanced in years, have each of them honorable sons to per- 
petuate their names. 

The families they represent will always have for the 
members of the Sanxay family a special interest, for, if 
our family is in direct line from Josue Sanxay, of which 
fact there is very great probability, as we shall see later 
on, it is also in direct line from INIarie Vivier, and by the 
marriage of Ruth Sanxay, their daughter, with Daniel 
Meschinet, it is also allied to that of the ^lescliinet family. 
Monsieur le Juge Vivier is in direct line of descent from 
Jehan Vivier, the brother of said JNIarie, who married 
Josue Sanxav, and if our descent is from IMarie and 

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Josue, as above supposed, Judge Vivier would be fifth 
cousin once removed to the writer of this book, and to all 
others of the sixth generation in the line of descent from 
Pastor Jacques Sanxay, refugee to England, counting 
said pastor as the first generation. (See genealogical 
tables.) I am pleased, therefore, to add a few words 
about these families. 

A full genealogy of the Vivier family may be found 
in the Revue de La Saintonge et de L'Aunis Vol. 18, 
published in 1898. From this it appears that Judge 
Louis- Alfred Vivier was born at La Rochelle 21 Sep- 
tember, 1834, and before becoming " juge honoraire " he 
was " conseiller de prefecture," " membre du bureau de 
bienfaisance de la caisse d'epargne, et du consistoire de 
I'eglise protestante." He was also, in 1898, " secretaire 
adjoint de I'academie de La Rochelle," " membre de la 
commision departementale de meteorologie," and " ofRcier 
de I'instruction publique." He married at Bordeaux 
Marthe- Caroline Preller, and has had two sons. The first, 
Jean-Theodore-Maurice, was born 1 Februarj^ 1871, at 
La Rochelle. He was " eleve de Saint Cyr," and later 
" lieutenant au premier regiment de chasseurs a Chateau- 
dun." He married at Sedan 15 July, 1897, Caroline- 
Eugenie-Marguerite Bacot, daughter of Monsieur Louis- 
Joseph Bacot, " president de la Chambre de Commerce," 
" ancien maire de Sedan," " chevalier de la legion d'hon- 
neur," and of Juliette-Josephine-Celene Bonnet-Dorion. 

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The second son, Gustave- Alfred-Henry, was born at La 
Rochelle 17 September, 1873. He is " conseiller de pre- 
fecture de la Charente-Inferieure " and " ofRcier d' Aca- 
demic a La Rochelle." He was recently married to Ma- 
demoiselle Cecile Fourcaud of Bordeaux, daughter of 
Monsieur Gaston Fourcaud, " juge au tribunal civil." 

Monsieur Meschinet de Richemond was born 4 Feb- 
ruary, 1839, his full name being Louis-Marie Meschinet 
de Richemond. He is " archiviste honoraire du depart- 
ment de la Charente-Inferieure," " correspondant du 
ministere pour les travaux historiques," " ofRcier de I'in- 
struction pubHque," and " chevaher de I'ordre royal hel- 
lenique du Sauveur." He holds the " medaille d'honneur 
de la societe nationale d'encouragement au bien de Paris." 
He is an honorary member of the Huguenot Society of 
America, and is the author of numerous historical works. 
He married at the Chateau of Douhet, in 1862, Charlotte- 
Lucie Guenon des Mesnards. Five children have been 
born to him, viz., Charlotte-Louise-Elsie, Josephine, 
Charles-Lucien-Paul, Samuel-Louis-Adolph, and Ru- 
dolph-Elie- Andre, of whom only the last two survive. 
Samuel-Louis-Adolph Meschinet de Richemond was 
born in 1870, and he is pastor of the Reformed Church. 
He married in 1895 Louise- Jeanne-Helene Leonhardt. 
They have five children, viz., Soline-Elise-Idelette, Louis- 
Rene, Charlotte-Lucie-Florence, Madelaine, and Charles- 
Andre-Jean. Rudolph-Elie- Andre Meschinet de Riche- 

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mond was bom in 1878, and married in 1905 Louise- 
Marie-Helene de Vedrines. A genealogy and account 
of this very old and honorable family may be found in 
Magnys Nohilaire Universel, Vol. 19. 

There were other Sanxays at Saintes, following the 
time of Pastor Pierre Sanxay, to whom reference might 
be made, e.g., Jehan Sanxay, " apothecaire,'' Jacques 
Sanxay, '' procureurj' and honorable homme Pierre 
Sanxay, '' docteur en medecine'' The latter was an 
elder in the church at Saintes at a time when Daniel 
Orillard, to whom reference has already been made, was 
pastor. He was also Secretary of the Consistory. Under 
j)roceedings (persecutions) instituted, in 1685, about the 
time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, before 
the Court of Parliament at Bordeaux by Du Vigier, 
Counsellor of the King, against Pastors Orillard and 
Mesnard, and the above named Doctor Pierre Sanxay, 
elder of the consistory in the church at Saintes, a decree 
was made that these two pastors be fined and imprisoned; 
they were also forever interdicted from the exercise of 
any ministerial functions, and the church at Saintes was 
ordered to be demolished. Pastor Orillard was thereby 
driven from France, and went to the Hague, in Holland, 
and Pastor Mesnard went to Copenhagen, in Denmark. 
The presence, too, of a Pierre Sanxay at London in 1705, 
as the records of the Hungerf ord church there show, and 
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rietta, wliich was also the name of a daughter of the 
aforesaid Doctor Pierre Sanxay, makes me suspect, not 
only that the two Pierres were very closely related— per- 
haps father and son— hut also that the Pierre in London 
was another refugee from the intolerable persecutions 
in France. 

Let us now return from this digression, and con- 
tinue the regular thread of our story. For this we must 
again recur to Josue Sanxay, and fix his position in the 
family history, so far as the evidence at our command 
will permit. With him our story, based thus far on facts 
entirely authentic, comes to an end, or rather, perhaps I 
should say, it is not absolutely established as to one par- 
ticular link; for, while we have a record which shows who 
our ancestor, the father of Pastor Jacques Sanxay, ref- 
ugee to England in 1685, was, and while the facts and 
circumstances in regard to him tally with those known 
about Josue, yet, unfortunately, that record does not dis- 
close his name. Nor has the omission been supplied from 
any source aliunde. We are, therefore, not able to say 
that we have authentic proof that Josue Sanxay was the 
father of the refugee, yet the moral presumption, from 
the facts known, seems so strong as to leave little room 
for doubt that such was the fact. 

To begin with, we have it that Jacques Sanxay's 
father was a well-to-do merchant living at Taillebourg. 
That is just what Josue was. Moreover, the acts and 

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records of the notaries at Taillebourg, covering the time 
of Josue, and of other Sanxays living there, contempo- 
raneous with him, show many references to him and to 
them, but, besides Josue, they show no other Sanxay, 
merchant, hving there, who could have been Jacques' 
father. Had there been such, it is very unlikely that his 
name would not have been disclosed, somewhere, among 
those notarial records. We also know that Josue lived 
and married at the right time to be Jacques' father, al- 
though the precise date of his marriage is not known. 
We know that the name of his wife was Marie — Marie 
Vivier — and that it was quite the custom in those days 
to name the eldest daughter after the mother. We also 
know that Marie was the name of Jacques' eldest sister, 
and that she was born about the year 1645. We know 
that Marie Vivier, in that year was twenty-four years 
of age, and that Josue was thirty-one, showing that they 
were of suitable ages to have been at that time in the 
marriage relationship. We have proof positive that 
their known daughter, Ruth, was married in 1668, and 
supposedly she could hardly have been less than twenty- 
one years of age at that time, which would indicate her 
birth about the year 1647. This brings us very close to 
certainty that Josue must have been in the marriage re- 
lation near the year 1645, the time when, as stated, Marie, 
Jacques' sister, was born, and it could easily have been 
early enough for him to have been her father. The fact 

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that Ruth was not named for her mother indicates the 
probabiHty that there was an older daughter, whose name 
would naturally be Marie, if she was the first girl, and 
Marie, Jacques' sister, comes just right to fill that place. 
Among the witnesses to Ruth's marriage contract, which 
was in writing, were Marie and Anne Sanxay, known to 
have been the names of Jacques' sisters. Jacques' name 
does not appear among them, for in 1668, the year of the 
marriage, he was, according to the information which 
comes to us, away from home, and was sojourning in 
London, England. Furthermore, we have the fact 
(which, with the other facts, I consider a circumstance 
of great weight) that Josue Sanxay is known to have 
died at about the time when the facts show Jacques' 
father must have died. If Josue Sanxaj^ was not 
Jacques' father, all the above coincidences, and all this 
adaptability of the known facts to the theory that he was^ 
are most remarkable. And with it all, there is not a 
single circumstance in regard to either Josue or Jacques' 
father, which has come to light, which shows such a re- 
lationship to have been impossible. All the facts kno^vn 
about Josue, and those known about Jacques' father, are 
entirely consistent with the idea that he may have been 
his father. 

As bearing on the coincidence in the time of the 
death of Josue and of Jacques' father, let me call atten- 
tion to some of the known facts. Professor Tanneguy 

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Lefevre, who was one of Jacques' instructors at Sau- 
mur, died in 1672. This date is absolutely authentic. 
Jacques must, therefore, have been a student at Saumur, 
and, as we shall see later on, his father must have died be- 
fore that time, our information being that he died just 
before Jacques went to Saumur. It is well established 
that Jacques entered upon his first pastorate at St. Jean 
D 'Angle, as successor to Pastor Abel Lattay, in 1677. 
From the record we have concerning Jacques and his 
father {record made hy Jacques' son. Rev. James 
Sanocay), it appears that, upon the latter 's death, 
Jacques, who was then in London, England, where he 
had been about two years, immediately returned to 
France, entered the college at Saumur, completed his 
studies there, and took the degree of M. A., studied 
theology, married, and secured his church at St. Jean 
D 'Angle. All this, considering the time usually re- 
quired, we may fairly assume took from six to seven 
years, and shows that Jacques' father must have died 
about 1670. It could not possibly have been later than 
1672, for Professor Lefevre died in that year. It is fair 
to assume that Jacques must have been under him some 
substantial length of time to have been classed among his 
pupils. This could hardly have been less than a year or 
so, which again brings us to about the year 1670, as the 
time of his father's death. Now Josue is known to have 
been living in May, 1668. He signed Ruth's marriage 

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contract on that date. He is known to have been dead 
in 1672, because there is a record that his wife was then 
a widow\ He must have died between these dates, and 
it could easily have been about the year 1670. 

Now I recognize, as stated, that all these circum- 
stances do not positively establish that Josue was the 
father of Pastor Jacques Sanxay, but they do show the 
fact to be possible, and in a very high degree ^^robable. 
There seems but little room for doubt. The question, 
however, cannot be considered as settled, until it shall 
be established by some positive evidence, in its nature 
conclusive. It is to be hoped that such evidence, or some 
evidence decisive of the question, may come soon. What- 
ever the fact maj^ be, there is no room for doubt that our 
ancestor was of the same family with Josue and the 
Sanxays at Saintes. Everj^thing points to it, and noth- 
ing points any other way, and it is known that Jacques, 
and his sister j\Iarie, had relations of a business nature 
with Jean Raboteau, who was the husband of Suzanne 
Sanxay, Josue's niece, and with Pierre Raboteau, who 
was the brother of Jean. 

The father of Pastor Jacques Sanxay, whether 
Josue or not, w^as a man of comfortable estate, and 
was established in a beautiful home at Taillebourg. 
He is known to have had four children, JNIarie, born about 
1645, a son, whose name and the date of whose birth are 
not known, Anne, born about 1651, and Jacques, who 

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may have been a little older or younger than Anne. If 
Josue was their father, of course, there would be one 
more to be added, Ruth, heretofore mentioned. She would 
probably be the oldest, unless Marie, as heretofore stated, 
bearing the mother's name, would thereby supposedly 
be the elder, it being a very general custom to name the 
eldest son for the father, and the eldest daughter for the 
mother. If the unknown name of the eldest son could 
be shown to have been Josue, the theory that Josue was 
the father would almost seem to be conclusively estab- 
lished. 

But the father, whether Josue or not, died about 
1670. Ruth, as we have seen, was then already married, 
Marie and Anne Sanxay having been among the wit- 
nesses to her marriage contract. The elder son had al- 
ready died. Marie was then about twenty-five years of 
age, and Anne was about nineteen. Not long after- 
wards Anne married, and went to live at JVIoeze. Whether 
the mother, if Marie Vivier, long survived is not known, 
for we have no record of her after 1672, but she probably 
did not. With Jacques away in the pursuit of his studies 
at Saumur, there was not a child left, to remain at the old 
home at Taillebourg, except Marie, and whether or not 
that home was continued is not known. It is known that 
Marie, 13 January, 1685, in the fortieth year of her age, 
died unmarried at Tonnay-Boutonne, where her brother, 
Jacques, was then a pastor, and she was buried there. 

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Anne, who married Josue Pouillou, elder in the church 
at Moeze, 14 June, 1671, and by whom she had four chil- 
dren, died 12 Xovember, 1681, at the age of about thirty 
years. Their children were Anne, born in 1672, Josue, 
born in 1676, Daniel, born in 1678, and Samuel, born in 
1679. Ruth Sanxay and Daniel JNIeschinet are known to 
have had two children, Daniel and Etiemie. They died 
before their children reached their majority, and we have 
some documents referring to proceedings taken by Henry 
Soulard, the guardian of these children, in their behalf. 
Just where Ruth and Daniel made their home, or when 
they died, or where they are buried, I have not ascertained. 
At one time it seems to have been supposed that Daniel 
had expatriated himself in 1685, but I know of no evi- 
dence of that. Of Jacques I will speak later and some- 
what at length. 

But first let me digress, and go back to the early 
part of the seventeenth century, and speak of an Anne 
Sanxay, who married lionorahle Jiomme JNlathew Col- 
lineau, " avocat au Paiiement de Bordeaiuv ". I have sus- 
pected that she was the daughter of Doctor Samuel 
Sanxay, to w^hom reference has already been made {see 
genealogy No. 22, sub. 1), but I confess I have no proof 
of the fact whatever. Neither do I know the date of her 
marriage, but it must have been somewhere about the 
year 1620 to 1625. Their known children, as ^vill be seen 
from the genealogical data annexed, were Jeanne, Ben- 

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jamin, and Mathieu. The latter married Jeanne Carre, 
daughter of Pastor Ezechiel Carre. This family becomes 
interesting, because both jNIathieu and his father-in-law 
came to America. 

Mathieu CoUineau, Jr., was " juge ordinaire de 
Pons/' and " diacre " of the church there in 1678. On 
leaving France he first went to England, where he was 
naturalized, 10 October, 1688. He petitioned, 1 July, 
1694, as a French Protestant, for letters of denization 
in New York, which were granted July 12. He was 
made freeman of the city of New York, 14 June, 1698. 
No further mention of him has been found. It is thought 
that he went to South Carolina, where Peter Collineau 
was living in 1730. A considerable Huguenot settlement 
existed there. Baird, in his " Huguenot Emigrants to 
^America,'' speaks of the church at Pons, in France, with 
which Collineau was connected. It was an unusually 
strong and prosperous one. Elie Prioleau was pastor at 
the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. It 
is said that he remained with his flock, through all its 
tribulations, until 15 April, 1686, at which time the 
church edifice was leveled to the ground. While the 
work of its demolition was in progress, he preached to 
his weeping congregation from the words, " He that 
findeth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life 
for my sake shall find it." Prioleau and several of his 
people came to America, and he became the first pastor 

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of the Huguenot church at Charleston, South Carolina. 

Ezechiel Carre, Mathieu's father-in-law, received 
his schooling in philosophy and theology at Geneva, and 
afterwards became pastor at JNIirambeau and La Roche- 
Chalais, in France. In 1686, he came to America with 
a colony of forty-live families, and they settled at Nar- 
ragansett, in Rhode Island. The colony met with innu- 
merable trials and difficulties, and by 1691 its members 
had become pretty well scattered. Pastor Carre remained 
faithful to the colony in its tribulations, though he often 
went away to preach in Boston. It is not known what 
finally became of him. 

And now I return to speak more fully of Pastor 
Jacques Sanxay, the refugee to England in 1685. His 
is the most interesting figure in the genealogical chain, 
because it is from him that the Sanxay family, as known 
in England and America, has sprung. It is gratifying 
that the chain of descent from him is beyond question — 
absolutely authentic. At the time of his departure from 
France, he seems to have been about the last of his m- 
mediate family, his father and mother, sisters and brother 
having all died. If Ruth Sanxay was his sister, she did 
not long survive his departure. 

The information we have of him comes chiefly from 
a record (to which I have already referred) in the form 
of a letter, written by his son. Rev. James Sanxay of 
Tetcott, England. It was made up rather late in life 

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from recollections of what his mother had told him about 
his father's history. The essential facts contained in 
that record have been amply confirmed by outside evi- 
dence. There are a few seeming inaccuracies, but really 
they are not so, being simply incomplete statements, or 
unimportant errors of detail, such as would naturally 
arise from imperfect recollection, and in no way do they 
affect the substantial truth of the story as told. 

From this record we learn that the father of Pastor 
Jacques Sanxay was, as heretofore stated, a merchant 
who lived at Taillebourg, where he had built a very beau- 
tiful home. As soon as Jacques was of proper age he 
was sent to the Jesuit College at Bordeaux, which city 
was then, as now, the metropohs of Southwestern France. 
I observe that this was Madelaine College, then an old 
school of one hundred years standing, and it was noted 
for the thoroughness of its training in the classics. 
Jacques there showed marked ability, and took the prize 
awarded for eloquence, the prize being a beautifully 
bound book entitled " JEloquentia, sacra et prof ana." 
His ability excited a desire on the part of the Jesuits to 
bring him into their Society, and they besought his father 
to give his consent. The result was that Jacques was 
withdrawn from the institution, and sent to London to 
learn English. Here he remained not quite two years, 
when his father died, his elder brother having also died 
in the meantime. He had no taste for business life, and 

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immediately returned to France, entered the Protestant 
college at Saumur, completed his studies in the humani- 
ties, and finally received his diploma, conferring upon 
him the degree of Master of Arts. One of his teachers 
at Saumur was Tanneguy Lefevre, the father of the 
celebrated INIadame Dacier.* Professor Lefevre was 
one of the famous classical scholars of his day, and au- 
thor of numerous classical works. Rev. James Sanxay 
in his day had possession of this diploma, and said he 
was going to send it to London, possibly meaning to his^ 
daughter Charlotte, or to his nephew Robert Sanxay, 
both of whom resided there. After graduation Jacques^ 
entered into orders, married, and in 1677 became pastor 
of the church at Saint Jean D 'Angle, and afterwards^ 
at Tonnay-Boutonne. Both these places are in Sain- 
tonge, the former being in the present Department of 
Charente-Inferieure, Arrondissement of Marennes, and 
Canton of Saint-Agnant, the latter being in the same 
Department, Arrondisement of St. Jean D'Angely, and 
Canton of Tonnay-Boutonne. 

A pastoral record of the church at Tonnay-Bou- 
tone, from 1683 to 1685, during the incumbency of Pas- 

* Note — Strange as it may seem, notwithstanding the training she received 
under her distinguished father, and the influence he would naturally have over 
her, Madame Dacier (Anne Lefevre) and her husband, Andr6 Dacier, " biblio- 
thecaire du cabinet du roy," both finally embraced Catholicism. Their own 
child had even been baptized into the Protestant church, and Tanneguy La- 
fevre, the brother of the Madame, and a distinguished mathematician also, on 
the 4th day of October, 1713, formally abjured the Protestant faith in the- 
presence of his sister, and her husband, as witnesses to the ceremony. 

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tor Sanxay, and made up in his own handwriting, is still 
extant. A copy of it has been printed in the Revue de 
la Saintonge et de VAunis, and may be found in Vol. 
22 at page 351. A full knowledge of the facts relating 
to this record seems to have been acquired by Monsieur 
Denys D'Aussy, avocat, who belonged to an old and hon- 
orable family living at St. Jean D'Angely. He died a 
few years ago. It has been stated, if I mistake not, that 
tlie original record or register, which was found among 
the papers of Benjamin INIachin, brother of Ai'mand 
Machin, the historian of Saintonge, was given, or was in- 
tended to be given, to the society which publishes that 
Review. The last act noted in it is that relating to the 
death and burial of Marie Sanxay, Jacques' sister. The 
X^recise time when his pastorate began at Tonnaj^-Bou- 
tonne is not known, but it continued up to the time he 
was forced to leave France, on the Revocation of the 
Edict of Nantes in 1685. For at least one year before 
that time the persecutions were very severe in Saintonge, 
and I have reason to think that Jacques' imprisonment, 
referred to in the record made by his son James, took 
place before the Revocation Order or Edict was issued, 
and that his release took place after its issuance, and that 
the provision in the Revocation Edict requiring all 
Protestant ministers, not withdrawing from the Protes- 
tant faith, to leave France within fifteen days, under 
pain of being sent to the galleys if they did not, was 

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simj^ly made to apply to his case, and embodied among 
the conditions upon which his release was granted. 

The James Sanxay record is to the effect that his 
father was ordered to close up his church and desist from 
preaching, which he declined to do, whereupon he was 
sent to the La Rochelle * prison, and dragoons were 
quartered in his house until they consumed all the pro- 
visions on his estate. He lay in prison six months, when 
an order came from the Court to the Duke of Boufflers, 
Governor of Guyenne, to release him on condition that 
he quitted France in fifteen days, otherwise he was to be 
sent to the galleys. This allotted time he made use of to 
dispose of his effects, and in preparation for his depart- 
ure for England. The last day of grace was up, with- 
out his finding a ship for that country, and he was forced 
to embark in a ship for Holland, but by reason of storms 
and weather of the most extraordinary severity, this ship 
was driven into the port of Plymouth, England. Here 
he disembarked with his wife and three children. 

There is evidence, quite satisfactory, that he left 
France on Tuesday, 20 November, 1685, on the ship 
" La Montague de Lievre," commanded by Captain Rob- 
ert Simon, bound for Rotterdam, Holland. This evi- 
dence consists of entries in a diary, purporting to have 
been kept by one of the passengers on that ship, in which 

* Note — The query has come to my mind whether the prison intended to be 
referred to was not La Reole, instead of La Rochelle, but I have not investi- 
gated the question. 

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the events of the voyage are noted from day to day. It 
records the coming aboard of M. Sansay and his family, 
and of his leaving France in consequence of the Revoca- 
tion of the Edict of Nantes. It shows how closely, at 
that time, the ports of France were guarded, and how the 
ship, in the course of its departure from port, was chal- 
lenged by the public officials, and how closely the pass- 
port of M. Sansay was examined. The diary, which does 
not cover the whole voyage, or show at what port the 
ship landed, is made up chiefly in describing the terrific 
storms that were encountered. The original of this diary 
was said, not many years ago, to be in the possession of 
Pastor Lomain, of Holland, and very likely still exists. 
What followed after his arrival in England is best 
told in the language of James Sanxay as follows: "As 
" soon as my father had settled himself and family in a 
" house at Plymouth, being one day in a coffee-house, 
" where there was a great deal of company, he fell into 
"conversation with a Mr. Jonkin (possibly error for 
"Tonkin, a well-known family in Cornwall, t.f.s.), a 
" gentleman of good estate in Cornwall. At that time 
" there were a great many refugees daily coming over, 
" and it engrossed the general conversation. Mr. Jon- 
" kin inquired into the particulars of the persecution, of 
" which my father gave so satisfactory an account, and 
" particularly of his own sufferings, that he commiserated 
" his case, and made him the following proposal. He 

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" told him he had five sons and a daughter, all young. If 
'' he would come to his house, and take them under his 
" tuition, he would give him such a salary yearly. My 
" father accepted the offer thankfully, left his family at 
'' Plymouth, and went with Mr. Jonkin. While he was 
'' there, there came to settle in Exeter such a number of 
'' refugees, that Bishop Lamplugh sent for the chief, and 
'' asked him if no clergyman had come with them. He 
'' told him he had heard there was a M. Sanxay who had 
" been, and indeed was at that time, in the family of Mr. 
'' Jonkin in Cornwall. The Bishop, on this information* 
" WTote a letter to him, exhorting him to come and take 
" upon him the feeding of this flock, promising to give 
'' him a large church in that city, and to obtain a pension 
" for him from the government for his subsistence. He 
'' communicated this letter to his generous patron, who, 
"on his telling him he thought himself in conscience 
'' bound to obey this call, applauded his zeal, only insist- 
'' ing on his taking all his children with him, which he 
'' could not refuse to do. As soon as he was settled in 
" Exeter they were all brought to him, and remained with 
'' him until the day of his death, which was sudden, and 
'' happened six or seven years after his settling in Exeter. 
'' I was then between three and four years of age, so that 
'' I cannot remember him. On his death. Bishop Tre- 
" lawTiey took my sister Claudia into his family, where she 
" lived until her death, and whilst he lived he was a friend 



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" to US all. This is all I can, at this age, recollect of what 
" my mother has related to me of my father's history. 
" It is a very remarkable instance of the care Providence 
" takes of those who suffer for righteousness' sake. We, 
" his descendants, who have so amply reaped the bene- 
" fits, ought to acknowledge it with the utmost sense of 
" gratitude." 

The church at Exeter, granted to Pastor Sanxay by 
the Bishop, was St. Olave's. Somewhat altered, it re- 
mains to this day. It is situated on Fore Street, only a 
few minutes walk from the great Cathedral. Oliver, in 
his history of Exeter (1861), says: "This church bears 
the marks of great antiquity, particularly the tower 
which is of Saxon construction. It has three aisles, and 
a vaulted roof, supported by six massive pillars. The 
tower, which is in front, is square, and at its summit are 
grotesque figures, serving as spouts to carry the water 
from the leads. Adjoining the tower is a flight of stairs, 
leading to a small room over the gateway, once the 
habitation of the Romish rectors, and now occupied by 
the sexton. After the Norman Conquest, this church 
was given to the new erected Abbey of Battle in Sus- 
sex, and it continued part of its possessions, until the 
dissolution of the Abbey. After the Revocation of the 
Edict of Nantes, great numbers of Protestants fled for 
refuge to this Kingdom, and many of them settled in 
Exeter, who on their applj^ing to the Bishop for a j^lace 

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of worship, this church was granted them, and for 
many years divine service was performed in the French 
language by pastors of their own choosing. About 
1758, through their long connection and intermarriage 
with the natives, they became incorporated with them, 
and further worship in the French language was 
thought unnecessary. In the year 1778, the church 
was undergoing rejDairs, and a number of octangular 
pieces of thin pasteboard painted red on both sides 
were found, and one side was stamped with the French 
inscription ' Christ est le pain de vie.' They are suj)- 
posed to be certificates, delivered by the priests after 
confession, to qualify the bearer to receive the holy 
communion." In popular terms, St. Olave's was for 
many years called the " French church." 

At present (1905) the floor of the church is largely 
made up of grave-stones, with the inscription sides up. 
These stones, however, are only exposed in the aisles and 
passageways, a floor of wood, slightly raised, covering 
the part occupied by the pews. Among the exposed 
grave-stones we find one to Nicolas Aubin, the pastor 
shortly after the death of our refugee ancestor, if not his 
immediate successor. He, too, left Saintonge in 1685. 
The inscription on this grave-stone states that he was from 
Gravan, France. A record of him in France, however, 
which has come to my notice, calls him " ministre de Beau- 
mont, imroisse d'Orivant.'" There are said to have been 

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five French pastors in all, and, it is stated, that all of 
them are buried beneath the floor of the church. There 
is good reason to believe that the last one of these pastors 
was Rev. John Courtail, son-in-law of Pastor Sanxay. 
There is, however, some confusion about it. Even Oliver, 
in one place, speaks of this last pastor as being Lewis 
Courtauld, and, in another place, in the same or another 
book, calls him Jean Courtail, and mentions the exact 
day and date of his death. 

The pastorate of our ancestor, Jacques Sanxay, ex- 
tended from about 1685-6 to about 1692-3, and was ter- 
minated by his death. Unfortunately we are devoid of 
details concerning him in this pastoral relation, because 
the church registers during the whole of the French oc- 
cupation are lost. Mr. Charles E. Lart, an earnest in- 
vestigator, and member of the Huguenot Society of 
London, is making some efforts to find them, and is not 
entirely without hope that he may be successful. We 
have, however, a few items concerning him. Suzanne de 
Robillard, in the thrilling account she gives of her escape 
from France in 1687, refers to the greeting he gave her 
upon her arrival at Exeter, which occurred on Sunday. 
He was about to enter his pulpit, but he delayed for a 
time the church services, and there was great rejoicing, 
for they had known each other in France. Among others, 
who attended his ministrations at Exeter, was Charles 
Henry de la 3Iothe-Fouque, Baron of Tonnay-Bou- 

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tonne, whom he had also known in France. Suzanne de 
Robillard w^as of noble birth. She was the daughter of 
Josias de Robillard, ecuj^er, seigneur de Champagne, and 
of jMarie de Mezieres. Suzanne and the Baron subse- 
quently became husband and wife. From that union 
there were three sons. The eldest entered the service of 
the Elector of Saxony, and died a Prussian Colonel. The 
youngest passed his old age at Celle, as Lieutenant- 
Colonel of Hanover and friend of Frederic the Great. 
The father died in Holland, and the mother passed her 
last years at Celle, where she probabh^ ^^Tote the account 
of her escape from France. 

It is also interesting to note that, shortly after the 
arrival of our ancestor at Exeter, William, Prince of 
Orange, landed in England, as the head of the Revolu- 
tion which was to secure the unquestioned supremacy of 
Protestantism in that Kingdom. On his way to Lon- 
don the Prince stopped at Exeter, but Bishop Lam- 
plugh, through whose overtures our ancestor became 
pastor of St. Olave's, in a spirit of overweening loyalty 
had hastened away to inform King James II. of the land- 
ing of the Prince at Torbay. For this service he was 
promptly promoted to the See of York. Sir Jonathan 
Trelawney, who was so friendly to our ancestor and all 
his family, and who, on the latter's death, received his 
daughter Claudia into his own family, became Lam- 
plugh's successor. He will be remembered as one of the 

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famous seven bishops who were imprisoned by King 
James in the Tower of London, an event which stirred all 
England, and brought out the popular refrain, which was 
sung to the tune of "Aidd-lang-syne," and which is known 
in England even to this day: 

" And shall Trelawney die ? 
Then twenty thousand Cornish men 
Will know the reason why." 

Bishop Trelawney was a native of Cornwall, and greatly 
beloved there, and hence the song. 

A note by Claudia (Bradley), daughter of Rev. 
James Sanxay, is appended to the record he made of his 
father's history. This discloses the fact that the sudden 
death of his refugee father was suspected to have been 
caused by poison. A person from France, thought to 
have been a spy, was in Exeter, and drank coffee with 
him, and it is thought, by some means, slipped poison 
into his cup, for he was dead the next morning. It 
seems difficult to believe that human malignity could be 
carried so far, but it must be remembered that the ex- 
odus to England of a large French Protestant popu- 
lation, and the advent of William, Prince of Orange, to 
the English throne, had stiffened and made more aggres- 
sive the spirit of Protestantism. The result was, that an 
alliance was formed between England and Holland 
against France, and her lusty monarch, Louis XIV., 

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which subsequently cuhiiinated in active hostihties. The 
suspicions of the French Government were aroused, and 
it was feared that Wilham was using the French pastors 
in some way to acquire a knowledge of the coast de- 
fenses of France. Moreover, the charge of espionage 
was an easy expedient for Jesuits and others to employ, 
as a basis for further persecutions in France, and they 
did not hesitate to use it. It was somewhere about this 
time that such a charge, incited by a curate priest at 
Moeze, was brought against Josue Pouillou, a man of 
the highest repute there, and an elder in the church. He 
was, as we have seen, brother-in-law to our refugee an- 
cestor, and he had remained in France after the Revoca- 
tion of the Edict of Nantes. It was charged that he was 
in conspiracy to spy out the arsenal at Rochefort. I am 
not prepared to say that the death of our ancestor grew 
out of any of these conditions, but if so, it would be by 
no means surprising. 

Pastor Jacques Sanxay was married in France not 
far from the year 1675. His wife's name was I^Iarie, but 
her family name is not known. They had six children, 
three born in France. Of these three, two died young! 
after the family came to England. Their names are not 
known. Daniel, one of those born in France, was the 
elder of the two surviving sons, and James, born at Ex- 
eter, was the younger. At the time of their father's 
death, Daniel was about fourteen years of age, and James 

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between three and four. Claudia, and possibly Mary, 
were between the two. The two sons were liberally edu- 
cated. Both were graduated from Oxford University, 
Daniel from All- Souls in 1700, and James from New 
College in 1712, and both became clergymen of the 
Established Church of England. 

Rev. Daniel Sanxay was just about twenty-four 
years of age when he received his degree of M.A. from 
New College, at Oxford, in 1703. Not many years after 
this we find him settled at Cheam, a suburb of London 
to the south, in Surrey, where he became the head of a 
famous school. This school was largely patronized by 
the nobility and gentry, and enjoyed a high degree of 
prosperity. It is said to have been founded, when the 
plague raged in London, in the time of Charles II, 
about the year 1666. Cheam was found to be so health- 
ful, and so suitable a place for the school, that it was 
continued there, and afterwards it became one of celeb- 
rity. From the work of :Manning and Bray on Surrey 
I learn that Dr. Charles Divenant, son of Sir William 
Divenant, the poet, was educated there, and was one of 
its early pupils. After the school came into the hands 
of Daniel Sanxay he erected a new and commodious 
school building, which was still standing in 1818. I am 
not quite sure but that the one now in use is the same, for 
the school still remains, and enjoys, I believe, a very fair 
degree of prosperity, though Cheam has become greatly 

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changed in its character, as a place of residence, from 
what it was in former years. Here, in his day Daniel 
Sanxay became a conspicuous figure, and passed an hon- 
orable and useful hfe. He died 24 IVIarch, 1739, aged 
sixty years. Among the pupils under him was Richard 
Glover, who became a writer of great power, and a 
scholar and orator of the first rank. He wrote the poem 
" To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton " and the great 
epic of " Leonidas/' and he was one of the select few 
to whom the authorship of Junius was ascribed. The 
poem to Sir Isaac was written while he was still a pupil at 
Cheam. After the death of Daniel Sanxay the school 
went to his son James, who subsequently disposed of it 
to Rev. William Gilpin, Vicar of Boldre, under whom 
its prosperity continued, and, during his incumbency, 
two sons of Sir WiUiam Blackstone were among its 
pupils. 

Daniel Sanxay, on the 24th November, 1711, and at 
the age of thirty-two years, married Jane Antrobus, of 
the ancient Cheshire family by that name, whose seat, 
Antrobus Hall, was situated at Odrode, near Congleton, 
in that shire. A considerable intimacy sprang up be- 
tween the two families represented in that alliance, and 
in three instances there were marriages between them. 
Their common interests seem to have centered in and 
about Cheam, where the Antrobus family had a portion 
of its estate, and, there, in the old parish church and 

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church-yard — St. Dunstan is its name — the two famihes 
have monuments to the memories of their dead. Among 
them is one to Sir Edmund Antrobus, who was created a 
Baronet 22 ^May, 1818, and who died 6 February, 1826. 
There is another to Edmund Sanxay, Maria Antrobus, 
his wife, Mary Sanxay, their youngest daughter, and to 
Edmund Antrobus, brother of Mrs. Edmund Sanxay, 
the inscriptions being on a single tablet, at the foot of 
which are carved the Sanxay arms impaling those of 
Antrobus. There is another to Fanny Maria Davenport, 
wife of Richard Davenport, which I will give in full. 
It is as follows: 

'' Sacred to the memory of Fanny Maria Davetqwrt, 
wife of Richard Davenport, of Court Garden, in the 
County of Bucks, Esq., the eldest daughter of Edmund 
and Maria Sanxay of this place, deceased. She died 
suddenly on the 15th day of October, 1790, aged 49 
years. And her dear remains are deposited in this 
church-yard, near to those of her departed family. 
Her very excellent qualities are too deeply impressed 
on the minds of those who were happy enough to he 
blessed with her acquaintance to require a recital of 
them here. To others suffice it to say, what strict truth 
dictates, that for sweetness of temper, goodness of 
heart, and unaffected piety, she had fezv equals. 

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Benedictus, benedicat vale. 

In testimony of the tender affection^ and high esteem 
in which he held her living, and in token of the pious 
reverence he hears to her beloved memory, this monu- 
ment was erected by her afflicted husband in the year 
of our Lord, 1807." 

Then follows the Davenport arms, impaling those 
of Sanxay. 

There are many more of these memorials in the old 
church, and copies of some of them may be found in the 
work of JVIanning and Bray on Surrey.* Unfortu- 
nately, about forty years ago, in order to make room for 
a new and larger church, it was found necessary to take 
down the old one which contained them. The chancel 
part, however, was allowed to remain, and like a minia- 
ture Westminster Abbey it has become the repository of 
all the tablets and monuments in the old church, and they 
are now replaced therein. Cheam, as much as any other 
one place I know of, is the mausoleum of the Sanxay 
dead. Here are buried Rev. Daniel Sanxay, and Jane, 
his wife; Edmund Sanxay, their son and Maria, his wife; 
Fanny Maria Sanxay and Mary Sanxay, daughters of 
Edmund; Daniel Sanxay, also a son of Rev. Daniel 

* Note — A reference to the Sanxay arms in this excellent work speaks of the 
chevron as being sable. This is error. It should be azure. And the birds are 
sometimes incorrectly called ducks. A complete and correct description would 
be, Or, a chevron azure, between three coots proper. 

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Sanxay; Henry INIaria Sanxay, daughter of the last' 
named Daniel, and Osborne Barwell, her husband; Jane 
Sanxay, daughter of Rev. James Sanxaj^ the son of 
Rev. Daniel Sanxay, and Rev. Henry Peach, her hus- 
band, besides other f amity connections. 

The old parish church at Cheam is not without a 
history. Out of six of its successive rectors, five of them 
became bishops. A story is also told of the finding 
underneath the church of an old chest filled with coin 
sufficient in amount for quite a fortune. Rev. Daniel 
Sanxay was often called " minister of Cheam," though, 
so far as I have been able to ascertain, he had no official 
ministerial relation with this church. Yet, all the same, 
his life and the lives of the members of his family cluster 
about it, and it will always be an object of interest to 
those who bear the Sanxay name. A picture of it may 
be found in Volume 4 of Brayley's History of Surrey. 
There is extant, also, an engraving of it, made by Mal- 
colm in 1772. 

Cheam is situated on a slightly rising elevation, as 
you approach it from the railroad station, and in the 
midst of it stands the old church above mentioned. 
Near by, in a southerly direction from it, if I mistake 
not, stands the school building, a structure of red brick, 
with high stories and large windows, largely concealed, 
-as you pass by on the road, by a luxuriance of shrubbery 
^nd trees. Once within the enclosure, you see, at the 

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right of the school building, a beautiful little chapel, and 
spreading out in front, and at the side, are bright and 
velvety green lawns, which in the rear stretch out into an 
open field, possibly used for athletic sports. Besides the 
school building, Daniel Sanxay erected at Cheam a resi- 
dence for his own use, which by will he left to his wife. 
It seems sad that he should have passed away before any 
of his children had married, though Jane, his widow, 
lived to witness the nuptials of them all. The two are 
buried, side by side, in the old church-yard. 

Of Claudia, the refugee's daughter, I wish we knew 
more. It seems, somehow, as if there was something pa- 
thetic in her life, though I can hardly explain why. We 
have seen that Bishop Trelawney, after her father's 
death, about the year 1693, through his friendly interest, 
took her, then a child, to his own home at the Episcopal 
Palace in Exeter, and made her one of his own family, 
and she remained with him until her death. This must 
have occurred before 1721, for it was in that year that 
the Bishop himself died, aged seventy-one years, or it 
may have occurred before 1707, at which time he became 
Bishop of Winchester, and of course removed from Ex- 
eter. The Bishop had thirteen children of his own family, 
none of whom left issue except his daughter Letitia, wha 
married John Fownes BuUer, Esq., of ^lorvale. 

Mary Sanxay, the other daughter of the refugee, 
grew to womanhood, and became the wife of Rev. John 

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Courtail of Exeter, of whom mention has already been 
made. Not very much has been gathered concerning 
him. He was j)robably one of the refugee colony from 
France, and it is probable that it was he who was the 
last pastor of St. Olave's church under the French occu- 
pation. Any doubt I have about it arises from the fact, 
heretofore stated, that the name of this pastor has also 
been given as Lewis Courtauld. Mary Sanxay and Rev. 
John Courtail, whose marriage must have occurred very 
near the year 1713, had two sons, John, who became a 
clergyman, and Lewis, who continued to live in Exeter, 
and who is known to have been living in 1754, but whose 
avocation is not known. If he became a clergyman, it 
may be he who was referred to as Lewis Courtauld 
aforesaid. However this may be, I have reason to think 
that it was the father. Rev. John Courtail himself, who 
was intended to be referred to as the last pastor of St. 
Olave's. When the name of one of these pastors, now 
well known to have been Aubin, is sometimes written 
Obing in the histories, it is difficult to decide such ques- 
tions. Mary Sanxay and her husband, and probably 
their son Lewis, are buried at Exeter. 

Rev. James Sanxay, the refugee's younger surviv- 
ing son, and the one to whom we are indebted for so 
much information concerning his father's history, was 
born at Exeter 2 November, 1690. For the most of 
his life he remained in Devonshire, the county in which 

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Exeter is situated. After his graduation from Ox- 
ford in 1712, we find him as a lecturer at St. INlary's 
chapel in Penzance, County of Cornwall, for about 
twelve years. Afterwards he became Rector of Bea- 
worthy and Tetcott in Devonshire, Tetcott remaining 
his home for the remainder of his life. He died there 2 
April, 1768, and was there buried the fifth day of the 
same month. He did not marry until he was about forty- 
one years of age. His wife, Anna Badger, whom he 
married 22 December, 1731, was the daughter of Rev. 
Edward Badger, Rector of Bedworth, County of War- 
wick. His married life covered a period of about twenty- 
seven years, his "vvife dying in 1758. He survived her 
about ten years. He seems to have had a fondness for 
Greek, and he was the author of the " Lea^icon of Aris- 
tophanes" a work which has been highly commended. 
{See Allibone's Dictionary of English Literature.) 
Copies of it may be found in all the great libraries, it 
being to my knowledge in four in the United States. 
There were about one hundred and forty original sub- 
scriptions for the book, which included that of the 
Bishop of Exeter, and those of several professors at 
Oxford and Cambridge universities, and that of a Rev. 
JNIr. Tonkin of Penzance. It passed through several 
editions. The first edition was published by H. Wood- 
fall, London, 1754. 

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in the time of the Saxons, was Alured, the last, Arscott. 
In the time of Henry II. the Tetcott Manor was held 
by William Pipard, and it continued in that family to the 
end of the reign of Edward III, when Sir William Pi- 
pard left it to his daughter Mary, wife of Sir Girard 
Lisley, and so it descended by Barkeley and Neville, 
Earl of Saulsbury, to Henry Hastings, Earl of Hunt- 
ington, and was by him sold to Arscott, who made it his 
dwelling, and he left it to his son Arthur, whose son, 
Edmund Arscott, afterwards became the lord thereof. 
John Arscott, the last male heir of the family, devised 
the estate to Sir William Molesworth of Pencarrow, 
Bart., and in 1811 it was vested in Sir Arscott Moles- 
worth, Bart. Mr. Arthur Arscott, son of Arthur Ars- 
cott, Esquire, was buried from the parish church 1 April, 
1739, and his widow, Gwen Arscott, 12 June, 1744, and 
John Arscott, Esquire, and Thomasine Spry were mar- 
ried there, 16 February, 1750, all during the rectorship 
of James Sanxay. 

Kelly, in speaking of the parish church at Tetcott, 
says: " The Church of the Holy Cross is an ancient edi- 
" fice of stone in the early English style, consisting of 
" chancel, nave, and south porch, and an embattled tower 
" with pinnacles, containing one bell. Up to August, 
" 1811, there were three bells. In the transept there is 
" a marble monument with the arms of Sir Skilston 
" Calmady, Kt. Sheriff of the County, o.b. 25 Septem- 

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" ber, 1675. There is also a marble tablet to Sir John 
"Ai'scott of Tetcott, who died in January, 1788. The 
" font is Norman, and there is a carved oak pulpit. The 
" registers of baptisms date from 1600, and of marriages 
" and burials from 1599." 

The follo^\dng note was made by the wTiter on a 
visit to Tetcott in 1905. " The Tetcott parish church and 
rectory are situated in a beautiful wooded park, con- 
taining many stately trees. The town is small, and con- 
sists of a few scattered collection of houses in the vicin- 
ity, and one or two gentlemen's seats. The church has 
been repaired somewhat, but the bell-tower appears very 
old. Some of the pews look very ancient, every pew (of 
these old ones) having quite elaborate carvings on the 
aisle ends or facings, each one being of a different de- 
sign. The tower is at the end opposite the chancel, and 
the church entrance, like that of most of the old churches 
in England (in this region at least), is at the side. Near 
this entrance, within, stands an old font. The small 
church-yard is full of graves, but very few now have 
stones to mark the remains." 

" As I then stood in that old church-yard, and looked 
about me, the scene was one of quiet beauty, and of soli- 
tude almost oppressive. Save for the rustling of the 
leaves, stirred by a gentle breeze, the stillness was almost 
death-like. In the ebullition of sentiment and emotion 
that overcame me, it seemed as if that impenetrable hush 

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was locking up from me the story of lives I was so ear- 
nestly seeking to know. Farther down the valley be- 
yond flowed the waters of the beautiful Tamer, with 
which the little river Claw commingled its own, not far 
away. The rectory of the church was vacant. The old 
rector had gone, and the new one expected. Rev. Walker 
Geary Knocker, had not yet arrived, and even the church 
warden was away. No others could open the safe con- 
taining the registers of the church, and I could not learn 
even what they would have revealed. That was a lock- 
ing up far from fanciful. The advent of the railroad 
has left the old village far from the route of travel, it 
being five or six miles from Holsworthy, the nearest rail- 
road station. The drive from Holsworthy is over a hilly 
country, most characteristic of Devonshire." 

" I will add, that by the courtesy of the present Rec- 
tor I have since learned, probably, all that an inspection 
of the church registers would have revealed to me. I 
will also note that one of the prominent residential seats 
to which I have referred, and which stands not far from 
the church, and to the right of the church as you ap- 
proach it from the rectory, is called " The Barton." It 
was originally the old IVIanor House, the residence of 
the Arscott family. It also stands in the wooded section 
I have heretofore mentioned. Formerly another man- 
sion, built under the superintendence of an architect 
sent out by the government during the reign of Charles 

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II., to effect some purpose for the Earl of Bath, stood 
somewhere between the rectory and the church. It has 
been described as an " imposing Queen Anne house." It 
was taken down in 1831. 

Of the children of Rev. Daniel Sanxay, the refu- 
gee's oldest son, Jane, the oldest, was married to Rev. 
Thomas Smyth, D.D., Rector of St. Mary's Church at 
Codford, County of Wilts, on the 14th of February, 
1741. The ceremony was performed at Saint Paul's 
Cathedral, in London, by Jane's brother. Rev. James 
Sanxay, Rector of Sutton. By dispensation Dr. Smyth 
was permitted to hold two livings, viz., the rectorship of 
Codford with the vic^arage of Swindon. Both Jane and 
Dr. Smyth lived to a ripe old age, and both are buried 
at Swindon, County of Wilts, where they died. They 
left no issue. Jane died in 1787, at the age of seventy- 
four, and Dr. Smyth in 1790, at the age of eighty-six. 
A tablet to their memories was placed in Holyrood 
Church at Swindon, which stated that they had lived hap- 
pily together for a period of nearly half a century. 

Rev. James Sanxay, Daniel's eldest son, was born 
13 April, 1714, at Cheam. He was graduated B.A. 
from St. John's College at Oxford in 1731, and from 
that same college he received the degree of M.A. in 
1734. He probably assisted his father in the school at 
Cheam until the death of the latter in 1739, after which 
he conducted it on his own account until 1746, when he 

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accepted the rectorship of the church at Sutton. He 
must also have retained some supervision over it after 
that, and until he had disposed of it to Rev. William 
Gilpin, Vicar of Boldre, which was in the year 1752. 
He married Catharine Firmin, of Epsom in Surrey, 
about the year 1750. He was the rector of Sutton from 
31 December, 1745, to 23 July, 1766, the day of his 
death. A tablet to his memory, and to that of his wife, 
and other members of his family, has been placed on the 
wall of the church, in the chancel, and in the church-yard 
he and several members of his family are buried. At 
the entrance to that old church-yard one cannot fail to 
notice a monument, with the following unique inscrip- 
tion, doubtless intended to be of serious import, viz.: 

" Here resteth in Peace 

the Body of 

William Juniper, Esq. 

who departed this life 

Dec. 11, 1812, aged 56 years 

Late Smith 

of the Borrough of Southwark, and to the 

Hon'ble Board of Ordinance & of Juniper Hall 

in this Parish. 

My Sledge & Hammer lie declined. 
My Bellows too have lost their wind, 
My Fires extinct, my vice is laid, 
My Coals are spent, my iron gone, 
My Nails are drove, my work is done, 
My fire dried Corpse here lies at rest, 
My soul, smoke like, soars to be blest." 
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Edmund Sanxay, the next son of Rev. Daniel 
Sanxay, was presumably educated at his father's school 
at Cheam. I find no record of him at any university. 
He was a surgeon of Essex Street, London, but he 
maintained a residence at Cheam. He was a witness for 
the prosecution on the trial of Miss Butterfield at 
Croydon, Surrey, in 1775, for the murder of William 
Scawen, Esq., by poison. His conduct at the trial seems 
to have excited the venom of those interested for the de- 
fense, and a long and open letter, printed in pamphlet 
form, was addressed to him on the subject of his appear- 
ance on that occasion. It may be found in a book called 
" Trials,'' a copy of which I have seen in the library of 
the British Museum at London. He was one of the ex- 
ecutors of the will of John Antrobus, of Congleton, 
who married his sister Hannah. He married his cousin, 
Maria Antrobus, daughter of Edmund Antrobus (his 
mother's brother) and Mary Webb. He had an inter- 
est, with his brother Robert Sanxay, in the Manor of 
Clay-Hidon in Devonshire, which they sold to James 
Gifford in 1774 (Lysons Magna Britania, Vol. 6, pp. 
113 and 267) . He survived his wife for about ten years. 
He made a very long and elaborate will, which was 
drawn with great precision, in which he makes many be- 
quests of many sorts. He had a considerable collection 
of pictures, and in his will he gave to his brother-in-law, 
Edmund Antrobus, such of these pictures as he might 

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select within six months from his decease, the balance to 
be divided equally between his daughters, Fanny Maria 
and Mary. As it turned out, however, his brother-in- 
law died first, although they both passed away in the 
same year and month — in October, 1787. Among other 
legacies which he bequeathed to his son-in-law, Richard 
Davenport, was that of the bust of his old master, Peter 
St. Hill, Esq. He evidently died possessed of a consid- 
erable fortune. 

Robert Sanxay, the next son, was engaged in busi- 
ness life, in which he was most successful. In 1754, and 
for many years thereafter, he was " Druggist to his 
Majesty " in London. His place of business was on the 
Strand, just opposite Craven Street, near the present 
Charing Cross Station. For a time his firm was 
" Sanxay and Bradley," the latter being the husband 
of his cousin Charlotte, daughter of Rev. James Sanxay 
of Tetcott. Later, the firm became " Sanxay and An- 
trobus," the latter being John Antrobus, his nephew, son 
of his sister, Hannah Sanxay, and John Antrobus of 
Congleton. He describes himself in his will as being 
of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, Westminster, though he 
owned a residence at Cheam, which, with the furniture 
and plate, he left by will to his sister-in-law, Catharine 
Sanxay, widow of James Sanxay, Rector of Sutton, for 
and during the period of her life. After her death the 
house was to go to her daughter, Jane Sanxay, who in 

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1785 married Rev. Henry Peach, Rector of Cheam. In 
1776, when this will was made, Catharine was already 
occupying this house. Robert Sanxay had, in his art 
collection, the famous picture, " The Feast of Belshazzar,'' 
painted by Benjamin Wilson. 

The "Memoirs of the Gilpin Family" by Rev. Wil- 
liam Gilpin, contain a reference to Robert Sanxay, as 
follows: "Among the acquaintances, which Mr. Gilpin 
formed in London, was a family by the name of Sanxay, 
in which he always met with great friendship. The eld- 
est brother (James Sanxay) had a school at Cheam, 
near Epsom, which had been of long standing. But on 
his marrying a wife vnih a good fortune, who was very 
averse to the employment, he applied to Mr. Gilpin to 
take it off his hands, and behaved to him in a manner so 
liberal, that he got the better of all his objections. One 
of the chief was the want of money to carry on the 
school. His brother, Mr. Robert Sanxay, one of the 
most friendly and benevolent men alive, desired Mr. Gil- 
pin to draw upon him for any sum he wanted, which he 
offered in so frank a manner that INIr. Gilpin accepted 
his generosity. The friendship was not only offered, but 
continued two or three years, indeed as long as Mr. Gil- 
pin wanted it, without the least diminution of confidence 
or kindness. Mr. Gilpin was sometimes several hundred 
pounds in his debt, but neither bond nor interest was 
suffered." Another reference to Robert Sanxay has 

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been found in a paper, which seems to have contained 
some sort of a memorial to him. It says that he was " of 
the most hberal mind and disposition, and most engag- 
ing in manner"; that he was "social but temperate, 
gentle but firm, modest but independent." It further 
characterizes him as a " man of gi-eat beneficence, but 
equally great in concealing it," and says that " he was 
so devoted to the service of others, that he shortened his 
own days." He seems to have been universally beloved, 
and John Sanxay, who came to America, named his first- 
born son after him. He never married. 

Rev. Daniel Sanxay's youngest daughter was Han- 
nah. She married her cousin, John Antrobus of Congle- 
ton, son of Philip Antrobus and Annie Varden. The 
marriage settlement was made 24 December, 1748. This 
alliance removed her from the rest of her family at 
Cheam, and thereupon Congleton, in Cheshire, with 
which place the Antrobus family was identified, became 
her home. Here she lived, about twenty-three years, 
until her death 4 June, 1772. A portrait by Romney, 
the celebrated artist, supposed to be of her, is now in 
the possession of Canon Barwell, a retired clergyman, 
residing at Bletchingly, in Surrey. His connection with 
the Sanxay family comes through Daniel Sanxay, Han- 
nah's youngest brother. I made a description of this 
picture, which, though not in apt terms, may give some 
idea of it. It is as follows: " It presents a sitting pose, 

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" with the hands resting easily on the lap. Around the 
" head is a long scarf or fold, tied once under the chin, and 
" twisted once as it hangs down in front, and it is held 
" close to the body by a band reaching across the front 
" of the dress, and fastened at both ends thereto, about 
" half-way down between the chin and the lap. Under- 
" neath this fold or scarf, covering the head, is a lace cap, 
" extending out even with the face, which it surrounds, 
" and in which the face is set. A white fichu, bordered 
" with deep double lace, surrounds the neck and shoul- 
" ders, and comes down over the front of the dress to the 
" lap, and crosses on the way down. The sleeves termi- 
" nate in large double lace ruffles, coming down nearly 
" to the hands, one of which is covered with a long kid 
" mitten with short fingers, the right hand being bare, 
" and the left hand holds the other glove. The right 
" hand is posed with the thumb and forefinger pointed 
" out in front, the other fingers being folded towards 
" the palm of the hand. The face, while hardly to be 
" characterized as beautiful, is singularly sweet, and ex- 
" presses inward calmness and peace. The face is full; 
" the eyes are turned slightly towards the left, and are 
" dark in color ; the forehead is fairly high, the cheeks 
" full, the nose small, and slightly broadened at its lower 
" part; the mouth is slightly compressed, and the lips are 
" moderate, and express, with the eyes, great amiability 
" and sweetness. The colorings of the picture are quiet.'* 

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Hannah Sanxay is buried beside her husband, at the 
Astbury Church, near Congleton. This church is of 
great antiquity. Its existence is recognized by Domes- 
day at the time of the Conquest. I should be glad to in- 
clude a full description of it, but the following, which I 
extract from the words of another, must suffice. He 
says, " It is dedicated to St. Michael, and, considered as 
a building, it can vie with any in the neighborhood, or in 
the neighboring counties, for beauty and grandeur. It 
is a Gothic structure, having a spire at its northwest 
angle. Its interior consists of a nave, chancel, and side 
aisles. There are five entrances, and two porches, of 
which one is the same height as the middle aisle of the 
nave, and the other is the height of the side aisles. The 
general design of the church is suited to a rich colle- 
giate establishment, and the execution of the ancient 
carvings and figures in the stained glass is exquisite." 

Near one of these porches there is a raised space 
(this was in 1820) inclosing four altar tombs, on one 
of which is inscribed: 

" Hannah Antrobus, died 4th June, 1772, aged 53. 
John Antrobus of Congleton, husband of the said 
Hannah, died November 22, 1773. 
Mary Antrobus, died May 12, 1802, aged 53. 
Ann Antrobus, sister of the said John Antrobus, 

died May 12, 1807, aged 80." 

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All four of these tombs are devoted to members of the 
Antrobus family, and on one of them is the following old 
and quaint inscription: "Here lyeth interred the body of 
William Antrobus, of Kent Green in Odd-Rode, who 
departed this life the first day of April Anno Dom, 

1688. MORS MIHI LUCRUM." 

The youngest of Rev. Daniel Sanxay's surviving 
sons was also named Daniel. He is said to have been a tea- 
merchant, but, if so, he was also at one time engaged in 
the lace business, which he conducted on the Strand, in 
London. He married Susanna Dorothea Brisco 13 Feb- 
ruary, 1753, by whom he had two children, a son, Daniel, 
who died young, and a daughter, Henry Maria, who mar- 
ried Osborne Barwell of Abington Street, Westminster, 
in the year 1788. Daniel also resided at Westminster, 
on Downing Street. Abington Street is just south of 
the Houses of Parliament, and Downing Street lies a 
little to the north between St. James Park and White- 
hall Street. Daniel died 22 December, 1769. There is 
an oil portrait of him, also in the possession of Canon 
Barwell, his great-grandson. Susanna Brisco belonged 
to the old Cumberland family by that name. I have 
not the date of her death, but she was living as late as 
1776. It was at her house in that year, that the worthy 
and venerable Rev. Dr. Pierre Fran9ois Le Courayer, 
Professor of Theology at Oxford, and editor of the 
" Histoire de Concile de T rente," expired in the ninetieth 

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year of his age. He was a remarkable man with a re- 
markable career. He was Canon of St. Genevieve at 
Paris, and afterwards Canon of Oxford, England. He 
was a man of great learning and a voluminous writer. 
He maintained, as a Catholic, the validity of the ordina- 
tion of Anglican bishops, because of the unbroken suc- 
cession from the Apostles. For this he was denounced 
by his church as a heretic, and excommunicated. He took 
refuge in England in 1728, where he was cordially wel- 
comed by Archbishop Wake, of Canterbury. The de- 
gree of D.D. was conferred upon him at Oxford, where 
he officiated as Canon, but he avowed he had not changed 
his religion, charging that it was not he, but the Roman 
Catholic Church, that was at fault in having departed 
from the doctrines and practices of the early church. He 
died as stated in London (Westminster) at Susanna 
Sanxay's house in 1776. 

Rev. John Courtail, the elder son of the refugee's 
daughter Mary Sanxay, and Rev. John Courtail, Sr., 
was born at Exeter about the year 1714. He was grad- 
uated B.A. from Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in 
1735, and received his degree of M.A. in 1739. His 
first charge, as a rector, was of Wood Church in Kent. 
He next became Rector, and later Vicar, of Burwash in 
Sussex. He was also Archdeacon of Lewes, and Canon 
Residentiary of Chichester. He was tutor to the Earl 
of Chichester, and to Sir William Ashburnham, who be- 

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came Bishop of Chichester. He continued Rector of St. 
Bartholomew, the parish church of Burvvash, for over 
fifty years. A tablet to his memory has been placed on 
the north wall of the chancel of this church. He died, 
unmarried, possessed of a comfortable fortune, the bulk 
of which he gave to his cousin, Charles Bradley, as ex- 
plained in the genealogical tables (see page 158) . Among 
his intimate friends were those of a family by the name 
of Hurdis, and it is to the church at Burwash that Dr. 
James Hurdis, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, refers 
in "" The Village Curate," when he says: 

" On the hill-top, behold 
The village steeple, rising from the midst 
Of many a rustic edifice: 'Tis all 
The Pastor's care." 

But I find my story lengthening far beyond what I in- 
tended, and what follows must be brief. 

Of the children of Rev. James Sanxay, Rector of 
Sutton, Henrietta (called Harriott in the will' of her 
uncle Robert Sanxay) married William Cholmley, of 
an old English family, and of which family name there 
are, or have been, several variations. Rev. Mr. Barwell 
has a portrait of both Mr. and Mrs. Cholmley. Cath- 
arine, the next daughter, died unmarried. I have seen 
a letter written by her in 1808 to her cousin John Sanxay 
in America. She spells Catharine with a K. Jane, the 

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next daughter, married Rev. Henry Peach, who was 
Rector of Cheam for thirty-three years — from 3 June, 
1780, to 10 March, 1813. James Sanxay, the eldest son, 
matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, 5 Febru- 
ary, 1772, aged sixteen, but he soon left, and entered the 
Army, and for a time was with the British troops in 
America during the war of the Revolution. William, 
the youngest son, was educated for the law. He mar- 
ried Matilda Clerk, and lived at Epsom. He left no 
issue. Caroline, the youngest daughter, also died un- 
married. She lived to be over eighty-six years of age, 
and spent her last days at Epsom. Epsom is situated 
near Cheam, to the south. It is there the great Derby 
races take place, and it is famous for its salt. 

Mary Sanxay, the youngest daughter of Edmund, 
died unmarried. Fanny INIaria, the eldest, married 
Richard Davenport, who belonged to the old Cheshire 
family by that name. He was a surgeon of Esses 
Street, London, and possibly was associated with Ed- 
mund Sanxay, his father-in-law. He became possessed 
of a fine country seat, called Court-Garden, at Great- 
Marlow, in Buckinghamshire. Court-Garden was a part 
of the old manor of Marlow, which, for more than a 
hundred years, belonged to the noble family of Paget, 
and it was reserved by them long after the manor had 
been alienated. In 1748 Court-Garden was sold by 
Henry, Earl of Uxbridge, to Dr. Battie (or Beattie), 

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a very eminent but somewhat eccentric physician. The 
residence was beautiful and commodious, and was situ- 
ated very near the River Thames. Richard Davenport 
bought this seat from Anna, the doctor's eldest daugh- 
ter, after his death, in 1776. In the doctor's art collec- 
tion, which, though not large, was choice, was the great 
picture by Benjamin Wilson, heretofore mentioned, 
called " The Feast of Belshazzar." It was probably 
through the advent of Richard Davenport at Great 
Marlow that Robert Sanxay, his uncle by marriage, 
acquired this picture. In 1789 Richard Davenport was 
sheriff of the County of Buckingham, an office of con- 
siderable distinction in England. The name, Richard 
Davenport, so often appears among the descendants of 
the refugee in America, that anything concerning him 
will be of interest. 

John Antrobus, the youngest son of Hannah 
Sanxay and John Antrobus of Congleton, was the part- 
ner in business of Robert Sanxay, in London, from 
1773 to 1781, and he was the sole executor of the lat- 
ter's will. This branch of the family has living repre- 
sentatives in Mrs. Cowell, of West Kensington (Lon- 
don), and her children. 

Daniel Sanxay's daughter, Henry Maria, as has 
already been mentioned, married Osborne Barwell of 
Abington Street, Westminster. There were three chil- 
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ward Edmund, the last of whom died young. Osborne 
entered the Army, and was in the Peninsular War under 
the Duke of Wellington. Later, he saw service in In- 
dia, and was at the siege of Bhurtpur. He was captain 
in the 11th Dragoons. His meritorious services brought 
him medals of honor. After the wars he settled in Nor- 
mandie, France, where his three sons, Osborne, Richard, 
and Arthur Henry Sanxay, were born. He was mar- 
ried at St. Bride's Church, London, 10 May, 1827, to 
Mary Elizabeth Chapman, daughter of the British Con- 
sul at Dieppe, in France, and they are both buried at 
Dieppe. When the three sons were old enough, they 
were sent to India. Richard entered the military ser- 
vice, and was with the 84th Infantry, and his commis- 
sion as captain was signed by the Duke of Wellington. 
The other two sons entered the services of the East In- 
dia Company. In 1855, all three returned to France, 
after which Osborne and Richard volunteered for the 
Crimean War, but Arthur went to England, entered 
Cambridge University, and graduated B.A. from Trin- 
ity College in 1860, and finally took orders in the church. 
Richard entered the British Consular service, first at 
Tarsus in Asia Minor, and afterwards at Reunion, Re- 
union Island, a French possession in the Indian Ocean. 
He died in 1861. Osborne and Arthur are still living, 
the former a retired captain in the Royal Navy% the 
latter a retired clergyman, full of honors in the church 

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he served for so many j^ears, and of whom it would be 
a pleasure to speak at length. 

Nathaniel Barwell, the other son of Henry Maria 
Sanxay and Osborne Barwell, became a captain in the 
Royal Navy, and died in 1886. He is buried at Plym- 
outh in Devonshire. He married at Weybridge, Sur- 
rey, 21 February, 1822, Susan Ann Middleton, by whom 
he had a son and a daughter. The daughter, Maria 
Emelia, now the oldest living descendant of the refu- 
gee to England, married Rev. Joseph Lymebear Hard- 
ing, B.A., who filled the office of Rector of Littleham, 
in Devonshire, from 1843 to 1878. He was the son of 
John Lymebear Harding of, or from a place near, Ilf ra- 
combe, County of Devonshire. He was born circa 1818, 
matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, 20 April, 1837, 
received his degree B.A. from New Inn Hall in 1842, 
and died in 1893. They had four children, three sons 
and a daughter, viz., Osborne Lymebear, John Lyme- 
bear, Charles Lymebear, and Josephine Lymebear, and 
all the sons are now living. JNIaria Emelia lives at West 
Kensington (London), and still has the full command 
of her faculties, and her eyesight is equal to the finest 
needlework. 

Of the children of Henrietta Ann (Harriott) 
Cholmley, daughter of Rev. James Sanxay, Rector of 
Sutton, only two married, viz., Mary and Lewin, and 
both died without issue. Mary married Rev. Leonard 

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Ely Towne, the Rector of Woolsthorpe, and Vicar of 
Utterby, County of Lincoln. Both she and her hus- 
band are buried at Lincoln. Lewin Cholmley married 
his cousin, Jane Peach, daughter of Jane Sanxay and 
Rev. Henry Peach. At first they resided on Eaton 
Square, London, but in the last year or so of INIr. Cholm- 
ley's life they lived at West End, near Southampton, in 
Hampshire. After his death Jane, his widow, resided at 
Worthing, in Sussex, and they are both buried there. She 
was godmother to Rev. Mr. Barwell. 

Of the children of Jane Sanxay (also a daughter 
of said James Sanxay), who married Rev. Henry Peach, 
Henrietta Mathilda married Thomas Comber, and died 
without issue, while Jane, her sister, as we have seen, 
married Lewin Cholmley aforesaid, and Mary Peach 
married Ma j. -Gen. Charles Green Eillicombe, Knight 
Commander of the Bath. He was a distinguished engi- 
neer officer in his Majesty's service, and was prominent 
in the Peninsular War under the Duke of Wellington, 
and his services, in throwing a bridge over the Adour 
River in the south of France, have been specially com- 
mended. She, also, died without issue, and with her 
husband is buried at Worthing. 

Of the eight children of Rev. James Sanxay, Rec- 
tor of Tetcott, three married. Charlotte married Ben- 
jamin Bradley, a merchant in London. From 1763 to 
1772, he was a partner of Robert Sanxay. After that 

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date he continued a drug business separatel3^ but sub- 
sequently he changed his business, and became a tea mer- 
chant. This business he conducted at the corner of 
Southampton Street and the Strand. Claudia, the 
youngest daughter, married John Bradley, gentleman, 
of Hales-Owen, formerly in the County of Salop, but 
now included in Worcester. Whether John and Ben- 
jamin Bradley were related is not known. I regret 
that I have not been able to complete my examination 
of this family, but it is known that they had three chil- 
dren, Charlotte, James, and Charles, born in the order 
named. It is strongly believed (though not positively 
known) that Charlotte and James remained single, and 
that they continued to reside at Hales-Owen, where 
their father and mother lived, died and are buried. They 
are doubtless, also, buried there in the old parish church- 
yard of St. John the Baptist. 

This old church is built of red sandstone in the Nor- 
man Early English style, and consists of chancel, clere- 
storied nave, north and two south aisles, south porch, 
and an embattled tower, with spire rising uniquely in 
the middle of the nave. The tower contains eight bells. 
Hales-Owen was the home of William Shenstone, the 
poet, who died 11 February, 1763, and he is buried in 
the old church-yard there. 

The youngest son, Charles Bradley, went to Lon- 
don, and, at the time of his marriage 26 March, 1801, 

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resided in the Parish of St. Martins-in-the-Fields 
(Westminster). He was born 29 July, 1774, and, when 
twenty-seven years of age, married Sophia Frances 
Albert. This marriage is mentioned in the Gentleman s 
Magazine, which states that the bride was the daughter 
of the late Lewis Albert, Esq., of Kew-Green, Surrey, 
and St. James Palace. The record of the marriage, 
which was solemnized at St. George Church, Hanover 
Square, London (the same church in which President 
Roosevelt was married to his present wife), mentions 
Edmund Antrobus, William John Albert, and Eliza 
Albert, as witnesses, and states that the bride, who was 
a minor, was married by the consent of her mother. 
They had a son Charles, who is referred to in a letter 
I have seen, as being a very bright and interesting boy. 
The circumstances, in regard to the change of the name 
to Courtail, are referred to in the genealogy annexed. 
{See No. 19, page 158.) 

The only surviving son of Rev. James Sanxay, 
Rector of Tetcott, was John, and he came to America. 
He was the youngest child, and when his father died he 
was just merging into manhood. His mother had passed 
away ten years before. None of his brothers were liv- 
ing, and his sisters, who survived, had all left the old 
home at Tetcott. Charlotte had married, and was liv- 
ing in London. Mary, unmarried, was living at Swin- 
don with her cousin, Jane Sanxay, who married Rev. 

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Dr. Smyth, the rector there. Of his early youth, Httle 
is kno^vn, but he seems to have deflected from the course 
of his ancestral line, and to have had a passion for the 
sea. How this was acquired is not known, but for a 
time in Devonshire, where he lived, all that was most 
charming and lustrous of adventurous and sea-loving 
England was centred. It has been said of him, that he 
had some official connection with the British Navy; but, 
if so, it is not known what. He is known, however, to 
have been intimate with officers on the British warships 
stationed at the port of Xew York just before the war 
of the Revolution, including among others those of the 
" Swan'' This was the vessel designated by Governor- 
General Tryon to enforce, in case of resistance, the land- 
ing of the tea from the tea ships which were to arrive 
at that port. 

The precise time when John Sanxay came to New 
York is not known, but it was as early as about 1772, 
and while the spirit of '76 was being born. He, never- 
theless, remained a loyalist, staunch and true. He could 
not forget that country and government that had fur- 
nished an asylum and protection to his ancestors, who 
had been driven from France. He married at New 
York in 1775 Sarah Devoe (Devaux), who was also of 
Huguenot descent. The marriage ceremony was per- 
formed by Rev. Dr. Inglis, the Rector of Trinity Church, 
who was also an unrelenting loyahst, and insisted, in spite 

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of the commotion thereby created, upon using the prayers 
for the King in the regular services of the church, and 
who also defended the home government with his pen. 
At the close of the war the feeling against the loyalists 
was intensely bitter. The Legislature of New York, 
in many cases, went so far as to pass acts of attainder 
against them, and confiscated their property. Sir Guy 
Carleton, the British commander, describing the situation 
at that time, in a letter to Lord North, the original of 
which I recently saw in London, intimated that General 
AVashington was about their only friend. John Sanxay 
and Dr. Inglis, in common with thousands, were com- 
pelled to leave the country to escape the wrath of the 
people. So great was the number of these loyalists, that 
Sir Guy Carleton undertook to provide for their trans- 
portation, and their removal cost the British Govern- 
ment $1,250,000. As a result of the exodus^ New York 
was reduced to nearty half its population. . Dr. Inglis 
w^ent to Nova Scotia, and settled in Halifax, and he was 
subsequently made bishop of that province. John 
Sanxay also left for Nova Scotia, in the fall of 1783, 
with his wife and two children, and went to Shelburne, 
a new place, made up almost entirely of the loyalist refu- 
gees. One of his children was born at sea while on the 
way, and another was born while he sojourned at Shel- 
burne. He remained at that place three j^ears, return- 
ing to New York in 1786. Here, for about fourteen 
years, he struggled, during the intense business depres- 

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sion that followed the war, to maintain his growing 
family, until 1801, when he lost his wife by death. His 
place of business at one time was on Broadway, opposite 
the present St. Paul's Church. In its church-yard his 
wife and several of his children are buried. Rather 
broken in health he survived his wife about ten years, 
and died at Mt. Pleasant, Westchester County, New 
York, in 1811, and he was buried there. 

John Sanxay was one of the petitioners for the 
granting of a charter for the Masonic Lodge, Trinity 
No. 10, organized in New York City in March, 1795. 
It is now known as Trinity No. 12, becoming such in 
1839, but it has become distinctively German in its mem- 
bership. This lodge was an offshoot of the New Jeru- 
salem No. 4, and the latter of Lodge No. 210, Registry 
of England, ancients. 

Of the children of John Sanxay who reared families, 
John, the eldest, alone remained in New York. In 
health he seems to have been greatly afflicted. He mar- 
ried Miss Anna Nutt, of New Jersey, 22 June, 1815, 
and, besides several daughters, left two sons, Skeffing- 
ton, the elder, and Joseph Frederic, the younger. Skef- 
fington was trained for the bar in the office of George 
and Edward Curtis, leading New York law^^ers of their 
day. Edward Curtis was a close friend of Daniel Web- 
ster, and from about 1840 to 1844 he held the office of 
Collector of the Port of New York. 

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At the bar Skeffington Sanxay attained consider- 
able distinction, though he was but forty-seven years of 
age when he died. In figure he was tall and command- 
ing. Naturally a keen student, he made himself master 
of the most subtile intricacies of the law. This, with his 
caustic wit and aggressiveness, made him a powerful 
antagonist. As a cross-examiner, it is said, he could 
wrench the truth from the most unwilling witness. His 
eccentricities were prominent, and even to this day sto- 
ries concerning him have been handed down among the 
reminiscences of the New York Bar. He married Miss 
Jeannette Fickett, who recently passed away in the 
eighty-first year of her age. They had a considerable 
family, but none of the children are now living except 
Mr. Edward Curtis Sanxay, whose home at present is 
in Liverpool, England, where he has been in business for 
many years. Here many Americans have had the pleas- 
ure of his genial hospitality, and have enjoyed the tonic 
of his humorous good nature. His worth as a resident 
of Liverpool has been signalized by his election to the 
presidency of the American Chamber of Commerce in 
that city. Charles, Skeffington's other son, for many 
years before his death, which occurred in 1903, was Vice- 
President, and one of the managers of the New York 
Rubber Company. He left two children, both daugh- 
ters. He always resided in Brooklyn. 

The younger son of John Sanxay, Joseph Frederic, 

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was a merchant in 'New York City. He was director in 
several important corporations, and retired on a compe- 
tence many years before his death. He was prominent 
in the circles of the Baptist Church, and, during a brief 
residence at Bloomfield, New Jersej^, a suburb of New 
York, he took somewhat to politics, and was elected a 
representative to the Legislature of that state. With 
that exception, he imiformly resided in Brooklyn, now a 
borough of the Greater New York. He died 21 August,^ 
1903, at Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, where he was pass- 
ing the summer. Of his children several are still living. 
A son, Joseph Frederic, resides at Seattle, in the State 
of Washington. His daughter, Charlotte, married 
Walter Reed, a native of Virginia, and they reside at 
Atlantic City, New Jersey. His daughter, Anna, has 
remained single. Agnes, his eldest daughter, married 
Henry Graham Hilton, son of ex- Judge Henry Hil- 
ton, the counsellor and legal adviser to A. T. Stewart, 
well known as New York's great merchant, and to whose 
business, upon Mr. Stewart's death, Judge Hilton suc- 
ceeded. Agnes and her husband are both dead. She 
died in Paris, France, in 1901, but left no issue. 

Sarah Sanxay, the eldest daughter and eldest child 
of John Sanxay, was born 14 June, 1818. She married 
James Bowman Wilkins, of Brooklyn, New York. They 
had five children, of whom Anna, the eldest, married 
Henry Guy Foggan. From this last union there is but 

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one living representative, Charlotte Ann, who married 
Samuel Fowler Phelps. They reside in the city of New 
York, but have no children. Julia Louise Wilkins, the 
youngest daughter, and youngest child, of Sarah Sanxay, 
married Clarence Eugene Gunther, M.D., and they also 
reside in New York. Dr. Gunther belongs to an old 
family, prominent in New York as furriers. In that 
business, in an early day, the Guther house was the 
rival of John Jacob Astor. C. Godfrey Gunther, Mayor 
of New York in 1863, was of the same family. There 
are no other representatives of the family of Sarah 
Sanxay, now living, save her son John Frederic Wil- 
kins of Stonington, Connecticut. He had one child, who 
died in infancy. 

Edmund Davenport Sanxay, John Sanxay's next 
son, was born 6 June, 1789, now, it will be seen, more 
than one hundred years ago. He attained his majority 
just about the time his father died. The latter, for some 
years before that time, had been so broken in health as 
to be compelled, notwithstanding his slender means, to 
relinquish his active pursuit of business, and Edmund, 
I trow, while still in his teens, was forced to do much 
towards making his own way in the world. He was the 
first of the sons to leave New York. When about nine- 
teen or twenty years of age, he went, about sixty miles? 
north, to Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, then a promising 
town of about forty-eight hundred people, there to estab- 

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lish himself and " grow up with the place." With New- 
burgh he and his descendants subsequently became thor- 
oughly identified. There in a small way he opened an 
establishment for the sale of cloths, and the manufactur- 
ing of clothing, finally changing his business to that of 
family groceries, and for a time, I am informed, he con- 
ducted both businesses in different parts of the same build- 
ing. He had scarcely started in his business life, when, 
on the 27th day of March, 1810, he married Lydia Bel- 
knap, daughter of William Belknap, one of a numer- 
ous family that had settled in Newburgh at an early 
date. The Belknap family is said to be of Norman 
origin, and can be traced back to the time of William the 
Conqueror. Sir Edward Belknappe was Chief Justice 
of the Court of Common Pleas, in England, in 1375. 

Edmund did not long continue alone in business, 
but in the latter part of 1811, he formed one of the co- 
partnership of Reynolds, Wright & Co., composed of 
James B. Reynolds, David Wright, Edmund Sanxay, 
and Robert Close. Nor did the new firm long continue, 
and each partner again resumed business for himself. 
In 1817, Edmund lost his store by fire, but fortunately 
his goods were saved. Before many years his success was 
such, that he began to interest himself in public matters, 
and in 1829 he was made one of the members of the first 
Board of Trustees of the Incorporated High School of 
Newburgh, his co-trustees being William Wiley and 

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James Belknap. In 1832, he established his business as 
a grocer in the very place on Water Street, where it has 
been carried on by three successive generations of his 
family, and the store property is still owned by one of 
his descendants. In the same year he became connected 
with the Newburgh Whaling Company, of which Wil- 
liam Roe was President, and Aaron Belknap, Secretary. 
The company was formed to engage in whale-fishing in 
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and elsewhere, and to 
manufacture oil and spermaceti candles. In 1834 he 
was made one of its Board of Directors. In 1833 the 
Legislature of New York also incorporated the North 
River Whaling Company^, and he was named in the char- 
ter as one of the incorporators along with John Forsythe, 
Alexander Falls, John Ledyard, James Halstead, John 
W. Knevals, John Phillips, and William C. Hasbrouck. 
But he did not long survive, and in 1835 came to his 
death. 

He is buried in the cemetery connected with St. 
George's Church at Newburgh, where generally the 
members of the family are interred. With this church 
they were especially identified, and between them and 
Rev. John Brown, D.D., its rector for more than half a 
century, there existed the most cordial relations. With 
few exceptions, he married and buried them all. In con- 
ducting the funeral services of Lydia Belknap Sanxay, 
Edmund's widow, who died 7 December, 1870, he touch- 

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ingly referred to their time-honored friendly relations, 
by quoting the following lines : 

" Pass the few fleeting moments more. 
And death the blessing shall restore. 
Which death has snatched away. 
For me. Thou wilt the summons send. 
And give me back my parted friend. 
In that eternal day." 

A local paper, referring to her death, said: "The 
funeral of JNlrs. Edmund Sanxay yesterday afternoon 
was attended by a large number of relatives, and by 
many whose years were contemporaneous with hers. 
She was eighty-three years of age, and Dr. Brown who 
conducted the service was of the same number of years, 
while in the audience were many whose heads were sil- 
vered by over seventy winters. Dr. Brown made no 
funeral sermon, but briefly referred to her Christian 
character, and her usefulness when in active life." He 
closed with the above lines. An oil portrait of this esti- 
mable old lady is in the possession of her granddaugh- 
ter, :Mrs. WhitehiU. 

A few words concerning Dr. Brown, with whom the 
lives of the members of this family were so intermingled, 
should have a place here. His history w^ould practically 
be the history of St. George's Church from the time of 
its reorganization in 1805. It was originally established 
in 1770, but the bitterness growing out of the Revolu- 

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tionary War with Great Britain left it without minister, 
wardens or vestrymen. Early, after its reorganization. 
Dr. Brown, while holding only deacon's orders, con- 
ducted some of the services of this church. The erection 
of the present church edifice was begun in 1815, and it 
was consecrated by Bishop Hobart in 1819. It was in 
1815 that Dr. Brown became its rector, and he contin- 
ued in this office for sixty-nine years. During those 
years this remarkable man, besides proving himself to 
be an able ecclesiastic, showed himself also to be a public- 
spirited citizen, and he became a man of powerful in- 
fluence in the community at large. He was selected to 
deliver the address to the Marquis de Lafayette, on the 
occasion of his visit to the Washington Headquarters, 
maintained at Newburgh. 

Of the nine children of Edmund Sanxay (he rarely, 
if ever, wrote his name Edmund D.), seven survived him. 
Of the seven five married, three of them being sons. 
Charlotte, the eldest child, was married by Rev. Dr. 
Brown, 6 September, 1837, to Charles Sanford, but he 
lived less than a year thereafter. They had one child, 
Charles Edmund, and he died unmarried. 

Edmund Smith Sanxay, the oldest of Edmund's 
surviving sons, married twice. His first wife was Eliza 
Mclntyre, daughter of INIark Mclntyre. By her he had 
two children, Eliza the younger dying in infancy. The 
elder, a son, Edmund by name, is still living. He resides 

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at Newburgh, and is Treasurer of the Higginson INIanu- 
f acturing Company there. This last named Edmund has 
married thrice. His first wife was JVIary Eliza Roe, by 
w^hom he had a daughter ^Nlarie Antoinette, who lived to 
the age of fifteen years, and died, 1 October, 1880, at El 
Dorado, Kansas, while she was with her aunt, JVIrs. J. W. 
David. A beautiful notice of her death appeared in the 
Walnut Valley Times, published at El Dorado. This 
same Edmund, by his second wife, Jane W. JNIilspaugh, 
has a son, William Belknap Sanxay, and he also resides 
at Newburgh. Edmund's present wife is Bessie R. 
Bishop, a native of Annapolis, Nova Scotia. 

Edmund Smith Sanxay, for his second wife, mar- 
ried Cornelia E. Hoffman, by whom he had three chil- 
dren, Frederick Davenport, Charles Downing, and 
George Washington. Cornelia E. Hoffman was the 
daughter of Joseph Hoffman, one of the old settlers of 
Newburgh, and one of the trustees of the Glebe of St. 
George's Church. He was also one of the Building 
Committee, when repairs were made on the old church 
building, after the reorganization of the church society 
in 1805. Thomas Carscadden (of the same family, I 
believe, as the mother of Lydia Belknap) was also made 
one of this same committee, and at the same time he was 
also elected one of the vestrymen of the church. 

Of the children of Edmund Smith Sanxay and Cor- 
nelia Hoffman, Frederick Davenport died unmarried at 

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the age of twenty-six. He was a member of Company 
I, Ellis Guards, 71st Regiment, National Guard of the 
State of New York, and of Regan's Battery, New 
York State Volunteers. He was one of the three months 
volunteers, who entered the Government service at the be- 
ginning of the late civil war. Charles Downing also died 
unmarried. George Washington, the youngest of these 
sons, married, 26 October, 1879, Anna Augusta Corey, 
by whom he had four children, all of whom save one, in- 
cluding the father and mother, have passed away. Ethel 
Corey, a daughter, is the only one of the family now 
living. 

Edmund Smith Sanxay was long in delicate health, 
and he was frequently compelled to visit the South, and 
he went even to Cuba, to secure the benefit of a more 
moderate climate, but he received no permanent benefit, 
and died before he reached his thirty-fourth birthday. 
He was highly respected and beloved for his amiable 
qualities, and a career of great usefulness was lost to 
his native city. Young as he was, he was made one of 
its trustees, the village form of government by trustees 
being retained until 1866, long after it had become a 
city of considerable size. 

John Henry Hobart Sanxay, the next surviving 
son of Edmund, was born 18 November, 1819, at New- 
burgh. He was so named after Bishop Hobart, under 
whose tutelage Dr. Brown received his theological train- 

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ing. On the 16th August, 1843, John H. H. Sanxay 
was married by Dr. Brown to Marie Antoinette Phil- 
lips, daughter of Thomas Phillips, Esq. He became the 
successor of his father Edmund in the business estab- 
lished on Water Street, which he continued up to the 
time of his death. He had a very beautiful and com- 
modious home, situated at No. 6 Washington Place, 
on a high ridge or bluff which overlooked the Hudson 
River, and, from the rear portion, a beautiful panorama 
of that noble river, and the hills looking like mountains in 
the vista beyond, spread out before the view, and opened 
up a scene not easily forgotten. He was a genial and 
interesting man, but confined himself closely to business 
life, and eschewed everything like public station. He 
lived to a greater age than his brother Edmund Smith, 
but was nevertheless a young man when he died. He had 
three children, two of whom survived him, William Bel- 
knap, and a daughter, Marie Antoinette. 

Wilham Belknap Sanxay was only eighteen j^ears 
of age when his father passed away, yet he immediately 
took control of, and personally managed, the large busi- 
ness left by his father. It was not in accordance with 
the wishes of his father, who had other plans for him, 
that he should enter this business life, but the death of 
the latter removed all opposition, and the son followed 
his own view of what was best. He managed the busi- 
ness successfully to the day of his death. He was born, 

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12 November, 1844. On 13 March, 1872, he married 
Addie Coney, daughter of George H. Coney, Esq., of 
Philadelphia, being then twenty-eight years of age. By 
her he had two daughters, the younger of whom, Addie, 
still survives him, and resides at Newburgh with her fa- 
ther's sister, now Mrs. George W. Green. He died, 22 
August, 1878, surviving his wife by about three years. 
An extended notice of his death appeared in the New- 
burgh papers, and an account of his career, as a member 
of one of its old families, was noted. He was known to 
the writer of this sketch as a man firm of purpose, sound 
in judgment, and gentle in bearing. There seemed to be 
not even a trace of asperity in his nature, and a word de- 
rogatory to others never passed his lips. If, as has been 
said, his friends were legion, he deserved them all. His 
sister, JNIarie Antoinette, still survives him. She mar- 
ried George W. Green, also of Newburgh. They have 
one son, William Sanxay Green, who was married, 5 
October, 1898, to Maud Peters. They all reside in New- 
burgh. 

Stephen Brown Sanxay was the next oldest son of 
the first Edmund. He married Rachel S. Post, daugh- 
ter of Caleb and Mary Post. He had, as will be seen 
by reference to the tables, five children, four sons and 
one daughter, but none of the family now survive, save 
Edmund Davenport, born 4 February, 1851. He had 
been many years in Cuba, connected with the sugar 

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business, but quite recently returned to the United 
States. He married, in Alaska, 24 July, 1897, Lulu 
Castledine Goodchild, daughter of Rev. R. G. Good- 
child, of Philadelphia, but I am not advised that any 
children have as yet been born to them. 

The youngest of the children of the first Edmund 
was Lydia White Sanxay, and she was born at New- 
burgh, 7 September, 1826. She married, 20 September, 
1848, Joseph Henry Hoffman Chapman, who was born 
at Newburgh, 12 March, 1823. Mr. Chapman was son 
of Paddock Chapman and ]Mary Hoffman, sister of 
Cornelia Hoffman, who married Edmund Smith Sanxay. 
He was, therefore, grandson to Joseph Hoffman, to 
whom reference has already been made. His wife Lydia 
Sanxay, died 30 April, 1876, but JNIr. Chapman sur- 
vived her many years, and lived to be eighty-three years 
of age. His career was that of the all-round citizen, 
practical and useful everywhere. In the church he was 
active and helpful, abounding also in charity, while in all 
that related to good government, and the general wel- 
fare of the people, he gave his unceasing attention. Be- 
side having the conduct of his own large business, he 
was trustee of the Newburgh Savings Bank, and one of 
the original trustees of the Washington Headquarters 
at Newburgh. For forty-seven years he was a vestry- 
man in St. George's Episcopal Church. He was also 
deeply interested in the care of the dependent poor, and, 

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down to the time of his death, he was a commissioner of 
the Newburgh City and Town House, formerly called 
the Alms House. He was always greatly interested in 
the civic affairs of Newburgh, and, from 1859 to 1863, 
he was one of the trustees in charge of its government. 
In the Masonic order he was particularly active. 
He became a member of Newburgh Lodge No. 309 in 
1853. When the movement was inaugurated to estab- 
lish a new lodge, he was one of the petitioners for the 
consent of the Newburgh Lodge. He was made a 
Royal Arch Mason in 1854 in Jerusalem Chapter No. 
8 of New York City. He became a charter member of 
Corinthian Chapter No. 159, from which body he was 
demitted 9 July, 1863, and he became a charter mem- 
ber of Highland Chapter No. 52, which was established 
in March, 1864. He was named in the charter of this 
Chapter to be first King. He was made a Royal and 
Select Master in King Solomon's Council No. 31 in 
January, 1869, and was elected Treasurer of the Council 
in the December following. The order of Knighthood 
was conferred upon him in IVIorton Commandery No. 4, 
New York City, in 1864, and he became a charter mem- 
ber of Hudson River Commandery No. 35 K.T., which 
was instituted in 1865. The same year he was elected its 
Treasurer, and served until 1874. It is said of him that 
he was a man of generous impulses, of a happy disposi- 
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Of the four children born to him and Lydia White 
Sanxay, only one, Maria Hoffman, is now living, and 
she is a widow. She married 27 April, 1870, Robert 
Whitehill, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but who 
came to this country with his parents in infancy. He 
seems to have been a mechanical genius, and he became 
an important factor in the development of the manufac- 
turing industries of Newburgh. His interest in these 
industries, and his untiring activity, brought him an in- 
dependent fortune, but he became broken in health, and 
is said to have died from overwork. He invented a ma- 
chine for the sizing and dressing of cotton yarn. He 
mastered the intricacy of machinery used in steamships, 
and for a while he was in the service of the United 
States Navy, as an assistant engineer. For a number of 
years he was engaged, with his father as a partner, in 
the manufacture of his patent machinery. He was also 
interested in the Chadborn and Caldwell INIanufacturing 
Company, which manufactured lawn-mowers. He had 
a fine residential establishment on Grand Street, the 
select residence avenue of the city, which was surrounded 
by beautiful lawns, and his stables were in keeping with 
the rest. He died 17 June, 1897, at the early age of 
forty years. He left a large family of children, as will 
be seen by reference to the genealogical tables, of whom 
four are now married. 

The two remaining and younger sons of John 

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Sanxay, viz., Frederic and Richard Davenport, in the 
year 1816, began business life together in New York, as 
manufacturers of pocket-books, but the enterprise soon 
ended, and each of them removed from the city. 

Frederic, the elder, who was born 27 October, 1791, 
had the aggressive spirit of a pioneer, and in 1817 he 
crossed the Alleghany Mountains, and settled in Cin- 
cinnati, then a small city of about eight thousand people. 
Situated in Ohio, and on the great river by that name, 
which was then the great highway of communication be- 
tween the East and West, and to the country tributary to 
the waters of the upper and lower Mississippi, including 
New Orleans, it became a great distributing point for 
trade, and was fast coming into prominence. Such a 
place, in a new country, usually brings together a splen- 
did collection of enterprising and energetic men. Cin- 
cinnati was no exception to the rule. Here Frederic 
Sanxay formed the acquaintance of Epraim Morgan, 
a gentleman of the Society of Friends, who became one 
of Cincinnati's most prominent and honorable citizens. 
Morgan was the senior member of a firm which estab- 
lished the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, then the leading 
newspaper of that city. It was the first daily newspaper 
published in the State of Ohio, and is believed to have 
been the first west of the Alleghany Mountains. It 
maintained its supremacy until recently, when its name 
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Morgan carry conscience into his business, that, believing 
slavery to be morally wrong, and, differing from his co- 
owners as to the propriety of receiving for insertion in 
the paper advertisements for the return of fugitive slaves, 
he disposed of his interest in the paper, and severed all 
connection with it. He entered into copartnership with 
Frederic Sanxay, and they carried on the business of 
book publishers and manufacturers of blank books, at 
131 Main Street, Cincinnati, under the firm name of 
Morgan and Sanxay. Theirs became the leading pub- 
lishing house in the city. Cincinnati, in those days, prac- 
tically supplied the whole western country with school 
books. In fact, its trade was great in all directions, and 
it became known as the " Queen City of the West." The 
business of the new firm was successful, and both part- 
ners in time retired with a comfortable competence. Mr. 
IMorgan died in February, 1873, at the venerable age of 
eightj^-three years, respected and lamented by all. 

Frederic Sanxay in March, 1818, the year after his 
arrival in Cincinnati, married Mary Whipple, daughter 
of Preserved Whipple, Jr., and Elizabeth Hewes. She 
was born at Richmond, New Hampshire. Her father 
was the son of Preserved Whipple and Olive Ballon, 
sister of James Ballou, Jr., who was the grandfather of 
President Garfield. Elizabeth Hewes was the daughter 
of that intrepid spirit, George Roberts Twelves Hewes, 
whose restless energy was well suited to the part he 

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played in 1773, as one of the " Tea Party " which threw 
overboard the tea from the ships in Boston harbor. He 
lived to be nearly one hundred years of age. There is 
a portrait of him, painted when he was ninety-three years 
of age, which was in the possession of the Bostonian So- 
ciety of Boston. 

Unfortunately, Mary Whipple Uved but a few years 
after her marriage with Frederic Sanxay. Four chil- 
dren, the eldest of whom was only eight years of age, 
were left without a mother's care, and the care of them 
devolved upon the father, in which, however, he had the 
assistance of his wife's sister Olive. The zeal and watch- 
fulness with which he guarded and directed them, they 
often made a theme for reminiscence in their later years. 
Fortunately, he lived to see them all happily married, 
and he spent his remaining days among them, after an 
early retirement from business life. But he remained 
chiefly with his oldest son, Theodore, with whom he 
passed his last days. He died in 1875 in the eighty- 
fourth year of his age, surviving his old partner, Mr. 
Morgan, just about two years. It can be truly said of 
him, that he was a man of strong personality, and of 
sterling character, and that he commanded the respect of 
all who knew him. He belonged at one time to the Ma- 
sonic Order, and was a member of the Nova-Cgesaria- 
Harmony Lodge of Cincinnati. 

Of the children of Frederic Sanxay, Theodore fol- 

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lowed the precedent set by his father, and made a bound 
for the new West. He became one of the earlier settlers 
of Iowa, locating at Iowa City, then the territorial capi- 
tal of what has now become the great commonwealth of 
the State of Iowa. There he met and married Hetty 
Perry, a native of Delaware, and there, with the excep- 
tion of a few years' residence in Brooklyn, New York, 
he passed his days. He was prominent in business and 
banking circles in his adopted home, and enjoyed the re- 
spect and confidence of its people. This was especially 
exemplified during the late civil war. Though of a mod- 
est and retiring nature, and always avoiding that which 
would make him the object of pubhc attention, he was 
selected by the business men in the community to supply 
a need for small change, caused by the retirement of the 
silver coin from circulation, which followed the suspen- 
sion of specie payments upon the breaking out of that 
war. He gave his signature to notes for the payment of 
fractional parts of a dollar, printed on pasteboard, and 
of the same denominations as the retired silver coin, and 
these were readily accepted, and passed current in the 
locality, in lieu of silver, for the purposes of small change. 
Their use was continued until the government supplied 
the postal currency, which became a substitute for the re- 
tired silver. After retirement from active business, he 
passed his remaining days in the quiet of domestic life, 
amusing himself with the palette and the brush. For 

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this sort of work he had had no special training, except 
in free-hand drawing, for which he had a natural apti- 
tude, and in which he had had some practice in his youth. 
He died at the age of seventy-four years. An oil por- 
trait of him is in the possession of the State Historical 
Society of Iowa, at Iowa City. The writer is now the 
only survivor of his immediate family. His other chil- 
dren were Henry, who died young, and James Perry, 
who married Clara Stone. 

James Perry Sanxay, largely as a matter of cir- 
cumstance, entered at first on a business Hfe, as succes- 
sor of his father, but he developed for everything like 
business, and all its activities, such an intense antipathy, 
as to render him almost morbid on the subject. He soon 
relinquished everything of that nature, and devoted him- 
self to study. In this quiet pursuit he passed several 
years at New Haven, Connecticut, where he also at- 
tended lectures at Yale University. He continued his 
quiet studies for several years during a residence at 
Brooklyn, New York. He finally became interested in 
orange culture in Florida, where he frequently passed his 
winters, and it was upon his return from there to the 
North that he contracted a cold that took him to his 
death. He died 19 May, 1901, at Iowa City, Iowa, 
where he had continued to reside after his father's death, 
and where his widow, who survives him, still lives. In 
gentleness and refinement of character, I have seen but 

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few men who were his equal, while in tenacity of pur- 
pose, in whatever he set about, he seemed absolutely in- 
flexible. 

Emily Sanxay, the eldest daughter, was married to 
Hiram K. Wells, at Cincinnati, by Rev. Dr. Lyman 
Beecher, father of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the fa- 
mous pulpit orator and pastor of Plymouth Church in 
Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Wells was a native of Man- 
chester, Vermont. He was engaged in mercantile life at 
Madison, Indiana, then at Cleveland, Ohio, and again at 
Evansville, Indiana. They had several children, and 
passed their last days at Elmira, New York, which was 
also the residence of their daughter Emily, who married 
Mr. Edward W. Lawrence, publisher of the Elmira 
Daily Advertiser. Two sons, Howard and Henry, and 
a granddaughter, Elizabeth Winifred Lawrence, wife of 
Edward Allison Thompson, survive them. The grand- 
daughter resides at Cleveland, Ohio. It was with Mr. 
and Mrs. Wells, his aunt and uncle, and at their beauti- 
ful home on Prospect Street, in Cleveland, that the 
writer of this book, prior to 1861, passed some pleasant 
years of his youth, while he was attending the Cleveland 
Institute, and otherwise preparing himself for college, 
before going to Western Reserve College and after- 
wards to Princeton University. 

Charlotte Sanxay, Frederic's younger daughter, 
married James Calhoun, a prominent citizen of Cincin- 

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nati. They continued to make their home in that city, 
and there several children were born to them. James 
Calhoun belonged to a family distinguished in Ameri- 
can life. He was a brother of Rev. Howard Calhoun, 
a well-known missionary to Syria, whose contributions 
to the religious press in America were always full of in- 
terest. Some of the other members of his family were 
prominent in political life, and James himself was pre- 
disposed to a life of that sort. He was active in the af- 
fairs of Cincinnati, and was connected with its Library 
Association, one of the purposes of which was to pro- 
vide a course of lectures, to be given during the winter 
months by distinguished men of the East. During one 
season they were compelled to rely upon home talent, 
and among those whose names appeared in the list of 
lecturers was that of James Calhoun himself. He died 
at Cincinnati, while his children were quite young, and 
he is buried there. 

His sons, James, Jr., and Frederic Sanxay, entered 
the army. James, the elder son, married Margaret Cus- 
ter, sister of Major-General Custer of the United States 
Army. He lost his life in 1876, in that memorable battle 
of the Little-Big-Horn River in Montana — a battle with 
the Indians — in which the General was also killed. Whit- 
taker, in his " JLife of General Custer" says: " Lieuten- 
" ant James Calhoun of the Seventh Cavalry was the 
" husband of Custer's only sister. He was Custer's dear- 

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" est of all friends on earth. He was the bravest and 
" gentlest of men, with the face and form of an Apollo, 
" bright fair hair and dark eyes, a man whom a lady who 
" knew him well describes as ' the handsomest man I ever 
" saw.' He was a gentleman's son, with all the educa- 
" tion of a gentleman, and yet he had not hesitated to en- 
*' list as a private soldier in the regular army, and he actu- 
" ally worked his way up, refined and sensitive as he was 
" * * * to a w^ell earned commission. * * * He was 
" remarkably quiet and reserved in demeanor, but he had 
" beneath his calm dignity * * * the most lofty aspi- 
" rations. Too young to have gained distinction in the 
" Civil War, he yet hoped to gain it by unwavering fidel- 
" ity to duty. * * * Such was the bright, brave youth 
" Custer told to stay behind and be killed, so that the day 
" might be saved. Did Calhoun murmur — did he ques- 
" tion the order? Not a murmur came from the one, and 
" the other showed by his first sacrifice that he placed the 
" country above all earth-loves. ' The country needs, I 
" give her a man who will do his duty to the death. I 
" give them my first-born brother. I leave my best loved 
" sister a widow, so that the day may be saved. Fare- 
" well.' Well did Calhoun redeem that trust. He died 
" like a hero." His brother, Frederic Sanxay Calhoun, 
also entered the army, and died 20 March, 1904. His 
sister Charlotte also married in the army, her husband 
being Maj. Myles Moylan, now retired. They live at 

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San Diego, California. Mary, the younger sister, mar- 
ried John J. Collins, a lawyer, and they reside at Spring- 
field, Misouri. 

Henry Campbell Sanxay, the youngest son of 
Frederic, made his home at Madison, Indiana, a small 
city situated on the Ohio River below Cincinnati, which 
at one time it was ambitious to rival. Here he was twice 
married; first, to Ann Elizabeth Park, and, second, to 
Sally Park Stringfellow. By his first wife he had six 
children, none of whom are now living. They all died in 
comparative youth, except Helen, who lived to the age 
of thirty-eight years, long enough to exemplify the 
beauty of her character, and the recital of her virtues 
would fill a volume. By his second wife he had four 
children, all of whom still sm*vive him. In his earlier 
life he entered upon a business career, but neither by 
taste nor by training was the occupation congenial. He 
was of an impressionable nature, and delighted in books. 
He had a good knowledge of Latin and French, and the 
trend of his life was towards the scholarly and the re- 
flective. He was fond of nature and country life, and 
got as near to both as he could. He established a beau- 
tiful residence place called " Ravenswood/' It was situ- 
ated outside of Madison, and on an eminence which 
overlooked the city. Here he went into grape culture. 
His vineyards, which were extensive, embraced many 
varieties of the choicest grapes. Though naturally quiet 

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and retiring, and shrinking from anything Hke noto- 
riety, he had social quahties of a high order. He was 
gifted in conversation, and dehghted to entertain men 
of prominence who came to Madison. He always had 
the visiting bishops and clergymen at Ravenswood. He 
was a devout churchman, and for years, and down to the 
time of his death, he filled the office of warden or vestry- 
man in the Episcopal church. To show the splendid 
heartiness of his impressionable nature, I am constrained 
to mention a circumstance which occurred when his last 
child was born. She was his tenth child, and the fourth 
by his second wife, and she " only a girl," if we accept 
her own way of phrasing it, yet, when she came he was so 
rejoiced, that he went to town and ordered a banquet at 
the hotel, and invited his friends to rejoice with him, and 
toasts were drank in his own wine to mother and child. 
This child was Olive, and though she has been afflicted 
from an early age with the infirmity of deafness, she has 
inherited her father's love of poetry and art, and many 
of her own poems and other compositions have found 
their way into the public prints and magazines, and, 
were I speaking of the living, I should be glad to speak 
of her. And yet I will not refrain from mentioning that, 
not longer ago than during the last summer (1907), at 
the laying of the corner-stone of the Indiana State 
School for the Deaf by the Governor of the State, at 
Indianapolis, she, by invitation, presented a poem ap- 

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propriate to the occasion, entitled " The Dream and the 
Deed/' which was read by the superintendent of the 
school. Her eldest sister, Lucy Agnes, married Robert 
Craighead Browning, and they reside in the city of In- 
dianapolis. Sally, the other sister, married George S. 
Cowlam of Chicago, and they now have a home near 
Madison. The other surviving child, a son, resided at 
San Francisco, California, and unfortunately was there 
during the recent earthquake disaster. Henry Camp- 
bell Sanxay died 8 May, 1888, and a beautiful window, 
in the Episcopal church at Madison, the gift of the 
Sunday-school of which he was Superintendent for 
many years, stands as a memorial to him, and shows the 
esteem in which he was held. 

Richard Davenport Sanxay, John Sanxay's young- 
est surviving son, left New York at about the same time 
as his older brother Frederic, and went to Richmond, 
Virginia. Here, 3 September, 1818, he was married by 
Bishop Moore of that state to Emily Tabitha Gordon, 
daughter of Alexander George Gordon and Mary Mor- 
ris, a niece of Robert Morris, the distinguished financier, 
and one of the signers of the Declaration of American 
Independence. After marriage Richmond still remained 
his home, and here he brought up his large family of 
children. He became prominent in the local affairs of 
the city, and held the offices of Alderman and Justice 
of the Peace, highly regarded as positions of honor in 

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those days. He was also an active or honorary member 
of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, the exclusive 
and petted military organization of that city. He 
mounted high in Masonic honors, and was at one time 
Grand Tiler of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. There 
is a photograph of him, taken in the regalia that was 
presented to him for something that he accomplished in 
the craft. He was a man of high social qualities, and 
noted for his courtly manners. He took a great interest 
in his family history, about which he was once in corre- 
spondence with Sir Edmund Antrobus of England. 
Unfortunately many records containing information ob- 
tained by him, and records made with regard to his own 
family, were destroyed by fire. His regular business 
combined that of a dealer in, and manufacturer of, 
books and blank books, and in some of the old record 
books of Surry County, Virginia, manufactured at his 
establishment, may be seen the imprints of his business 
plate. He died at Richmond, 1 January, 1870, at the 
age of about seventy-six years. His branch of the 
Sanxay family, though the most prolific of all, has not 
thereby extended the family name. Of his ten children 
only four were sons, and of the four sons only one, 
Richard, grew to manhood and married, and he has only 
one child living, a daughter, Anna. 

For the most part the descendants of Richard 
Davenport Sanxay come dow^n under the name of Gil- 

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liam, through his daughter Charlotte Isabella Sanxay, 
who married Robert Gilham at Richmond, 29 October, 
1839. Robert Gilliam was the son of John Gilliam and 
Hannah Sampson, of Perth, Scotland. He was elected 
Clerk of Prince George County, Virginia, in 1823, and 
continued to hold that office, by repeated elections, for 
more than thirty years. He afterwards became an Au- 
ditor in the Treasury of the Confederate States of 
America, the name under which the Southern people had 
constituted their government during the late civil war. 
He also entered the Confederate Army, and belonged 
to the Third Virginia Regiment, which for the most 
part did duty as a home-guard. At the close of the war 
he was again prevailed upon to accept his old office of 
County Clerk, and he continued to hold it until the law 
providing for the " iron-clad oath," as it was called, went 
into effect, which made it requisite for him to swear that 
he had never taken up arms against the United States. 
This, of course, made him ineligible for further service 

in that office. 

It may be here observed that Virginia, though far 
to the north for a Southern State, was aknost wholly 
Southern in feeling, and when the civil war broke out, 
no state seemed more ardent for the Southern cause, and 
to that cause Virginia was finally committed. As affect- 
ing the material prosperity of her people, this decision 
was most disastrous, for it made Virginia the scene of 

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the actual conflict of arms, and her territory was laid 
waste; moreover, her people went to the point of im- 
poverishment, and spent almost their last dollar, in 
support of the cause for which they fought. Richard 
Davenport Sanxay remained a Union man as long as 
the position of Virginia in the crisis remained open, but 
when Virginia passed the ordinance of secession, he took 
sides with his state, and he and his family remained loyal 
to the spirit of the Southern people. 

We shall see later on that Robert Gilliam, above 
mentioned, was not the only one to enlist in the Southern 
Army. Eliza Maria Sanxay, the third daughter of 
Richard Davenport, married Lewis Gordon Keith, of 
the United States Navy, who died in 1846, long before 
the war began, but Richard S. Sanxay, who had just 
married Ann Elizabeth Wilkinson at Richmond on the 
12th December, 1860, was prompt to enter the Confed- 
erate military service. Of the other children of Rich- 
and Davenport Sanxay, Emily Gordon married Robert 
Henry Batte, and she is now a widow, living at Rich- 
mond, Virginia. The Batte family was originally from 
the County of York in England. It is mentioned in the 
"Visitation of York" in 1666. The family seat was 
Okewell Hall. The records show that two members of 
this family settled in Virginia as early as 1660, making 
it one of the very old families of that commonwealth. 
One of them. Captain Batte, was sent on several expe- 

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ditions to treat with the Indians, and several resolutions 
in relation to him were adopted by the House of Bur- 
gesses. Sophia Gordon Taylor Sanxay, another daugh- 
ter of Richard Davenport, married Adolph Gohmert, 
and she is also a widow, and resides at San Antonio, 
Texas. 

Of the Gilliam-Sanxays, the most of them are still 
living, as will be seen by reference to the genealogical 
tables. Mary Epps Gilliam, the oldest child of Char- 
lotte Isabella Sanxay, married Wilham David Porter, 
Jr., the eldest son of Commodore William D. Porter of 
the United States Navy. The son was also connected 
with the United States Navy at the outbreak of the war, 
but he left that service to join the Confederate Army. 
He served for a time with the Rockbridge Artillery. 
He was also engaged in the battles about Richmond, 
and served as courier for General Robert E. Lee, the 
head of the Southern Army. In 1862, he entered the 
Confederate Navy. He was on the Confederate steam- 
ship " Palrick Henry,'"' which assisted in the famous 
battle between the " Menimac " and the " Monitor.^' 
Afterwards he was transferred to the James River 
Squadron of Ironclads. He died in the year 1902, 
leaving three children, all of whom have married and 
have children of their own, as will be seen by the tables. 

Lucy Skelton Gilliam, in 1865, married George W. 
Tennent, who had been an assistant engineer in the 

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United States Navy. He, too, in his youthful ardor, 
resigned and entered the Confederate service, and be- 
fore the close of the war attained the rank of Chief En- 
gineer in that service. After the war he went to the 
City of Mexico, where he and his wife now make their 
home. 

Robert Gilliam, Jr., at the beginning of the war 
was only thirteen years of age, but when he reached the 
age of seventeen he also entered the Confederate ser- 
vice, enlisting in a company of the Third Virginia Regi- 
ment, which, as stated, served for the most part as a 
home guard at Richmond. He was a Lieutenant in 
Company G. At the same time he also served as a clerk 
in the Confederate States Treasury Department located 
at Richmond, which city, it will be recalled, was con- 
stituted the capital of the Confederate States, and the 
seat of its de facto government. He was with his regi- 
ment in the battle which checked the celebrated Dahl- 
gren raid on Richmond, led by Colonel Dahlgren, son 
of the Admiral, in which the Colonel was killed. He 
afterwards went with his regiment into the regular ser- 
vice. At the close of the war, and while Virginia was 
still under the military rule of the United States, Robert 
was first made Deputy Clerk, and then Clerk, of Prince 
George County, the office his father had held before him, 
he being allowed to take the iron-clad oath in a modified 
form, on account of his youth while in the Confederate 

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service. He continued in that office until 1874, when he 
was admitted to practice at the bar of Virginia. He did 
not, however, remain in practice, but accepted the office 
of Clerk of the Court at Petersburg, which he still holds. 
He married 29 April, 1879, at St. Paul's Church, Peters- 
burg, ]Mary Love Bragg, daughter of the late Governor 
and United States Senator, Thomas Bragg of North 
Carolina. She was born at the Governor's Mansion at 
Raleigh, the State capital, during her father's term as 
Governor; but the home of her mother, Isabella Mar- 
garet Cuthbert, had formerly been at Petersburg, and 
after the Governor's death the family returned there to 
live. Here Robert and his wife are still living, and they 
have a large family of children, the eldest of whom is 
married, and also lives at Petersburg. 

But the distinction of having a large family belongs 
to his brother, Richard Davenport Gilliam, his junior by 
eight years. In 1904, when only forty-nine years of age, 
thirteen children had been born to him, all of whom are 
now living save two. This Mr. Gilliam is also a lawyer, 
and resides at Petersburg. It is due to him that I should 
acknowledge his very kind and valuable services in secur- 
ing for me much of the information and data, relating 
to the southern branch of the Sanxay family, which has 
been embodied in this work, and its genealogy as given 
was very largely furnished by him. 

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the order of birth, comes their sister Ehza. She married, 
at Prince George Court House, Virginia, 16 November, 
1865, Robert Carter Braxton. He had just passed his 
majority when the war broke out, and he entered the 
Confederate service and became a Lieutenant. For a 
time he was in command of the famous " Castle Thun- 
der," a mihtary prison, at Richmond. He died 13 JNIarch, 
1890. Besides his widow, six of his nine children still 
survive him. Lieutenant Braxton came from a Virginia 
family of considerable distinction. One of its most con- 
spicuous members was Carter Braxton, one of the signers 
of the Declaration of Independence, and the compatriot 
of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and other patriots 
of those days. He was, however, a representative of the 
aristocratic party in Virginia, and his views, especially 
as he expressed them in the Convention held in that state 
in 1776, gave considerable offence to his more radical 
brethren. He was born of wealthy parents, and educated 
at the College of William and JNIary. He was a member 
of the House of Burgesses from 1761 to 1771. He took 
an active part in the disputes with the royal governors, 
and he was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 
1775 and 1776. Three of the children of Robert Carter 
Braxton have married, but, so far as I am advised, only 
one of them thus far has issue. Three other children of 
Charlotte Isabella Sanxay and Robert Gilliam, viz., 
Emily Anna, John, and Charles Macalester, have mar- 

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ried, but the members of these famiUes have all remained 
strictly in private life. 

The descendants of Richard Davenport Sanxay have 
been considerable in number, and many of them are now 
living, but they are greatly scattered, as, by reference to 
the genealogical tables, will readily appear. These tables 
show their marriages, the names of their children, and 
very largely where they now reside. 

With the foregoing presentation — incomplete, I 
fully appreciate — my resmne of the family history must 
close. It has often been to me the occasion of regret, 
that the preparation of some suitable record has been 
so long neglected. I have only assumed the task of pre- 
paring this memorial record, because the time and the 
way seemed to open themselves to me, though I would 
have been glad if it could have fallen to some other lot. 
Even the purpose to do this much, I must confess, has 
been a growth, and not, from the inception of the idea, 
a fixed determination. My first thought was to present 
a simple genealogy, without explanation or comment, 
leaving it entirely for future determination whether I 
would ever undertake anything like a full and com- 
plete history. But something more than a skeleton 
genealogy seemed to be desirable, and I found I could 
hardly present a record less in detail, than is here pre- 
sented, that would give an adequate idea of the family 
history. While far from complete, it is much more co- 

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pious than I had intended, even Avhen I began to write 
it. From the mass of material I have collected, in- 
cluding many documents and extensive memoranda, I 
have embodied such facts as to the persons individually 
treated, and their environment, as would, with the fewest 
details, give some proper idea of the family and its his- 
tory, and I trust the result may not be \^dthout some 
degree of satisfaction and pleasure to those who are 
directly concerned. It is not supposed that such a work 
will be of interest to others, and it has not been prepared 
with a thought of others. It has been prepared primarily 
for the American branch of the family, and, in matter 
and in form, the endeavor has been made to render it 
acceptable to them, though I hope it may not thereby be 
less acceptable to those on the other side of the water. 
To render details clear to them, statements are sometimes 
made which to the American reader may seem super- 
fluous. 

The undertaking has not been without its pleasur- 
able side. An ancestry made up of those who have stood 
for high principle, and who have been ready to sacrifice 
all earthy comfort, and even life, for what was sincerely 
believed to be right, is a heritage of priceless value. No 
other lineage, however crowned with the insignia of 
earthly greatness, can be more truly honorable. To pre- 
sent the record of such an ancestry cannot be otherwise 
than pleasurable, and it is to be hoped that it may not be 

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lost to the generations yet to come. They are entitled to 
the full measure of its stimulus in the endeavor to lead 
honorable and useful lives. 

It is unfortunate that so few of the descendants of 
the old Huguenot refugee now living are in the male 
line, for it lessens the chances of the perpetuation of his 
name; but if, for want of such descendants, this old pa- 
tronymic should ever default, perhaps some of those 
who, while of his line, no longer bear his name, may be 
moved to take it up again by adoption, and send it on to 
a new career, or it might be made to accompany the im- 
mediate patronymic of the one so adopting it. At any 
rate it is to be hoped that, in the future, even more than 
in the past, those of his descendants, not bearing his 
name, who may become blessed with the splendid privi- 
lege of naming their children, may not forget that old 
Huguenot patronymic to which they are entitled by 
ancestral right, and, on all proper occasions, give it a 
place among the baptismal names of their children. 
Nothing could be more appropriate, even apart from 
ancestral considerations, for the world has presented no 
finer type of heroic manhood than is to be found among 
the Huguenots of France. Thus the old Sanxay name 
may be in a measure preserved. The precedent for this 
has already been established. Let us hope that it will 
be often repeated. 

I will refer to a single incident, and then I am done. 

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At London, on the fourth day of July in each year, the 
Americans in England hold, what they consider, their 
greatest social function. It is given in commemoration 
of American Independence, and it takes the form of a 
banquet, at which the American Ambassador to Great 
Britain holds the place of honor. Our English cousins, 
including those of the highest distinction in church and 
state, gladly grace those occasions with their presence, 
and commingle their good fellowship and oratory with 
that of representative Americans, who, by reason of 
domicile or sojourn in England, are enabled to be pres- 
ent and take part in that commemorative festival. 

It will certainly be a matter of pleasurable con- 
templation by the descendants of the old refugee in 
America — it being now more than one hundred and thirty 
years since their ancestor left England and came to 
America, during which time the descendants of the ref- 
ugee in the two countries have knoM^n little of each other — 
when they realize that the two branches have at last been 
brought in touch with each other, and that this desirable 
consummation, w^hile occurring at a place so distinctively 
English as London, was yet on an occasion so distinct- 
ively American as the one intended to commemorate the 
most important event in American history. Yet so it 
was, that, in London, on the fourth day of July, 1905, 
Mr. Edward Curtis Sanxay of the American branch, 
with Rev. Canon A. H. Sanxay Barwell of the English 

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branch as his guest, sat down at the great memorial ban- 
quet aforesaid. And from our point of view, marking 
as the occasion did the desirable consummation above 
mentioned, how delightfully opportune it was that Mr. 
Barwell should have been the recipient of one of its dis- 
tinctions, he having been selected for the honor of pro- 
nouncing the Invocation of Grace, as the great com- 
pany there assembled sat down to put that banquet into 
history. 

THEO. F. SANXAY. 

New York, 30 September, 1907. 



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OLD SANXAY SIGNATURES 








PIERRE SANXAY, PASTOR AT SAINTES, 1571 




a<ii 




PIERRE SANXAY, SIEUR DES BLANCHARUERES, AVOCAT, 16fi5 



RUTH SANXAY, WIFE OF DANIEL MECHINET, 1668 



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a/iiJ.i^'U^ ^ffc^^^^auyc 



PIERRE SANXAY, DOCTEUR EN MEDECINE, SAINTES. 16T3 



OLD SANXAY SIGNATURES 



PIERRb: SANXAY, "MARCHAND," SAINTES. IBIS 

JOSUE SANXAY, SIEUR DE LA BESNE, 1665 
SUSANNE SANXAY, WIFE OF NOBLE MAN JEAN RABOTEAU, 1696 



REV. JAMES SANXAY, RECTOR OF TETCOTT, ENGLAND. 1732-17G8 



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SANXAY FAMILY IN FRANCE 



(1) 

PIERRE SANXAY, a prominent citizen of 
Saintes (Saintonge), France, was probably born not far 
from the year 1530. He became a " maitre apothicaire," 
and afterwards " ministre de La Parole de Dieu " in the 
Reformed Church at that place. He was an intimate 
friend of Bernard Palissy, the philosopher, reformer, 
and artist in pottery, and wrote the introductory verses 
to the work of the latter, entitled " Recepte veritable par 
laquelle tons les liommes de la France pourront ap- 
prendre a multiplier et augmenter leiirs tJiresors" which 
was published in 1563. His pastorate at Saintes ex- 
tended from the year 1570 to 1576, the latter being the 
year of his death. His wife, Jacquette Goy, belonged to 
a family highly respected at Saintes, and distinguished 
for the mayors and aldermen it furnished that city. 

Their children (as far as known) were: 

1 Suzanne Sanxay, bap. by Pastor Yves Rouspeau of Pons 
(and Saujon), about the year I6OO. 

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2 Marie Sanxay, b, 16 October, 1570, bap. 22 October, 1570, 
by Pastor Michael Huchet; Godfather, Fran9ois Sanxay 
" apothicaire " ; Godmother, Marie Goy, his wife. 

S Pierre Sanxay, " marchand " {continued 5). 

4 Marye Sanxay, b. 24 June, 1572, bap. 29 June, 1572, by 
Pastor La Vallee ; G. F., Jacques Blanc, " conseiller au 
siege a Saintes " ; G. M., Marguerite d'Aguesseau, " dame 
de Gons." 



(2) 

A Suzanne Sanxay (possibly tJie Suzanne above 
mentioned, but there is no proof), was married to Jehan 
Collet, " marchand." 



Their children (as far as known) were: 

Collet, b. 28 February, l6l9^ bap. by Pastor Patru, 



3 March, l6l9; G. F., Fran9ois Sanxay, " Hote du Mortier 
D'Or "; G. M., Anne Collineau, wife of Daniel Collet, " doc- 
teur en medecine." 

2 Pierre Collet, b. 20 December, 1621, bap. by Pastor Hoc of 
Jouzac; G. F., Pierre Sanxay, "marchand"; G. M., Anne 
Boureau, wife of Jehan Sanxay. 

3 Daniel Collet, b. 24 November, 1624, bap. 5 December, 1624, 
by Pastor Rossel ; G. F., Daniel Frenard, " marchand " ; G. 
M., Marie Roussel. 

(3) 

Another Suzanne Sanxay was married at Saintes, 
6 January, 1618, by Pastor Rossel, to Pierre Desamonds, 
" avocat au Parlement de Bordeaux." Their children, if 
any, not known. 

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(4) 

A 31ARIE Sanxay [possihhj that of No. 1, suh. 4 
above mentioned, hut there is no proof) married a Mr. 
Melon (possibly Pierre), who died prior to 1614. {See 
No. 16, sub. 7.) Their children, if any, not known. 

(5) 

Pierre Sanxay, "marchand" (see 1, suh. 3), born 
prior to 1575, and died circa 1640; lived at Saintes, and 
married Aime Brung (or Brun), daughter of Jacob 
Brung, and sister of JNIarie Brung. 

Their children: 

1 Anne Sanxay, b. 22 October, 1602, bap. 27 October, 1602; 
G. F., Jacob Brung, "marchand"; G. M., Jacquette Goy, 
her paternal grandmother. 

2 Marie Sanxay, b. 30 April, 1604., bap. 2 May, 1604; G. F., 
Samuel Sanxay, " docteur en medecine"; G. M., Marie 
Brung. 

3 Pierre Sanxay, b. 8 October, 1605 (con. 6). 

4 Daniel Sanxay, b. 5 July, l6ll, bap. by Pastor Pettit, 6 
July, l6ll; G. F., Daniel Collet, " docteur en medecine," 
G. M., Marthe Martineau. 

5 Pierre Sanxay, b. 1 February, l6l3, bap. 4 February, I6l3; 
G. F., Pierre Melon; G. M., Suzanne Sanxay. 

6 Josue Sanxay, b. 27 August, I6l4 (con. 7). 

7 Marie Sanxay, b. 3 September, l6l7, bap. in the church at 
Xainctes, 3 September, I6l7, by Pastor Rossel; G. F., 
Pierre Taumur, " maitre chirurgien " ; G. M., Marie Helli- 
ret, wife of Samuel Veirel, " maitre apothicaire " of Saintes. 

8 Theophile Sanxay, b. 29 April, l6l9, bap. 2 May, 1 61 9, by 
Pastor Rossel; G. F., Maitre Vincent Machais, " juge sene- 
chal de Rioux "; G. M., Marie Thibaud. 

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9 Jacques Sanxay, b. 25 February, 1621, bap. last Sunday of 
the month in the church at Xainctes by Pastor Rossel; G. 
F., Jacques Du Bouschet, " avocat en la Cour"; G. M., 
Anne Badife, widow of Isaac Rongeaud, also " avocat." 

(6) 

Pierre Sanxay {see 5, suh. 3), "noble homme," 
" sieur des Blanchardieres," " avocat au Parlement de 
Paris," born 8 October, 1605, bap. 23 October, 1605; G. 
F., rran9ois Robelin, " maitre apothicaire de Pons " ; G. 
M., Suzanne Meschinet, wife of Paul Estor, " echevin 
de Saintes "; lived at Taillebourg, and died before 1676; 
married 23 October, 1645, Anne Pichon,* dau. of Jacques 
Pichon, born , , died circa 1674. 

Their children,, exact order of birth 7wt known. 

1 Jean Sanxay, " sieur des Blanchardieres," b. circa 1646, 
died circa 1688; captain in French Navy; lived at Taille- 
bourg. 

2 Suzanne Sanxay, b. , , d. , 

(con. 8). 

3 Pierre Sanxay (con. 9). 

4 Fran9oise Sanxay {con. 10). 

* Jean Pichon was mayor of Saintes in 1652. 

(7) 

JosuE Sanxay {see 5, suh. 6), "honorable homme," 
" sieur de la Besne," " marchand," " fermier-general du 
comte de Taillebourg," born, 27 August, 1614, bap. 28 
August, 1614, by Pastor Petit; G. F., Josue Raboteau, 
" procureur "; G. M., Marie Goy, wife of Jehan Renaud, 

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"greffier"; lived at Taillebourg and died about 1670; 

married , , Marie Vivier, dau. of Jehan 

Vivier, " avocat au Parlement de Bordeaux " and Je- 
hanne Soulard; born 23 August, 1621, and died after 
1672. 

Their known children: 

1 Ruth Sanxay, b. , , d. before 1692 (con. 

11). 

(8) 

Suzanne Sanxay (see 6, sub. 2), b. , 

, bap. , , living at Taillebourg as late 

as 1694; married Jean Raboteau, " noble homme," " mar- 
ehand," " echevin de Saintes," known to have lived as late 
as 1693. Children, if any, not known. 

(9) 

Pierre Sanxay {see 6, sub. 3), " sieur du Maine- 
Blanc " and " sieur des Manus-fief s," " marchand," born 
, , bap. , ; living at Taille- 
bourg as late as 1693; married, 28 June, 1673, Anne 
Naveau, brother of Pierre Naveau (marriage registered 
at Saint- Jean D'Angely) . Children, if any, not known. 

(10) 

Francoise Sanxay {see 6, sub. 4-), born, , 

, bap. , , known to have been living at 

Taillebourg as late as 1699, married Jean Favreau " sieur 

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de Touchereau," who died prior to 1693. Children^, if any, 
not kjiown. 

(11) 

Ruth Sanxay {see 7, sub. 1), born 



bap. , , married 6 May, 1668, Daniel 

Meschinet, " sieur du Pontreau," " avocat " (marriage 
contract dated above date), son of "noble homme," 
Etienne Meschinet, " sieur du Perchaud," and Rebecca 
Girard. He was a nephew of Pastor Rivet of Taille- 
bourg, who married ]\Iarie Meschinet. 

Their known children. 

1 Daniel Meschinet^ b. , , d. , 



2 Etienne Meschinet, b. , , d. 



(12) 

A Sanxay, " marchand," residing at Taille- 

bourg, was the father of Rev. Jacques Sanxay, refugee 
to England in 1685 (see 1, page 14-9). He had, so far as 
is known, four children, whose names, except as to one 
son, are known, and are given below. The Christian 
name of this " marchand " is not known, and it cannot 
therefore be stated whether Josue Sanxay {see 7), who 
was a " marchand " and resided at Taillebourg and who 
comes the right time to be Jacques' father, w^as his father 
or not. There is no room to doubt there was a relation- 
ship. Moreover, Josue died at the time that the record left 
by Rev. James Sanxay {see page 40), indicates that 

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Jacques' father died. The witnesses to the marriage con- 
tract of Josue's known daughter Ruth, made in 1668, in- 
clude the names of Anne and Marie Sanxay, known to 
have been the names of Jacques' sisters. But among the 
nine Sanxays, who witnessed that contract, none bear the 
name Jacques. The James Sanxay record indicates that 
Jacques, at the time of the marriage, was in London. 

The known children of the " marchand " are (order of 
birth not altogether known), as follows: 

1 Marie, b. circa 1645, d. 13 January, 1685, buried at Ton- 
nay-Boutonne (near Taillebourg). 

2 A son (name not known), b. , , d. before 

1670. 

3 Jacques Sanxay, b. , , d. circa 1693 {con. 

page 149)- 

4 Anne Sanxay, b. circa 1651, d. 12 November, 1681 (con. 
13). 

(13) 

Anne Sanxay {see 12, sub. 4), born circa 1651, 
died 12 November, 1681, married, 14 June, 1671, at 
Moeze, Josue Pouillou, " marchand," and " ancien " in 
the church at INIoeze, b. , , d. circa 1704. 

Their children: 

1 Anne Pouillou, b. in 1672, d. in 1676. 

2 Josue Pouillou, b. in 1676, d. in — - — . 



3 Daniel Pouillou, b. in 1678, d. in . 

4 Samuel Pouillou, b. in 1679, d. in 1682. 



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(14) 

FRANCOIS SANXAY {see imge 27), " maitre 
apothicaire " at Saintes, must have been born prior to 
1550. He married his wife, Marie du Pourtault, not 
far from 1570. He is known to have been living as late 
as 1618. 

The following are known to have been their children: 

1 Daniel Sanxay, b. , , bap. 29 February, 

1574; G. F,, Bertrand Du Pourtault; G. M,, Louise Du 
Pourtault, wife of Charles Arnaud, " maitre chirurgien " 
{see 15). 

2 Jehan Sanxay, b. , , bap. 3 November, 

1577 (con. 16). 

3 Jehanne Sanxay, b. 8 October, 1577, bap. 9 October, 1577; 
G. F., Jacques Roux, " marchand " ; G. M., Jehanne Vigaud, 
wife of Fran9oise Ruleau (see 17). 

4 Marie Sanxay, b. 8 October, 1577, bap. 9 October, 1577; 
G. F., Samuel Veyrel, " maitre apothicaire " ; G. M., Jac- 
quette Goy, widow of Pastor Pierre Sanxay (see 18). 

5 Marye Sanxay, b. , , bap. 21 January, 

1584 (see 19). 

(15) 

A Daniel Sanxay (possibly the Daniel mentioned 
above in No. lA, sub. 1, but there is no proof), " archer 
des gardes du corps du roy," married Esther Allaire. 

Their children: 

1 Marie Sanxay, b. , , bap. 9 July, 1607; 

G. F., Pierre Sanxay, " marchand "; G. M., Marie Gonauld, 
wife of Zacharie Ardouyn. 

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(16) 

Jehan Sanxay {see lA, suh. 2), " maitre apothi- 

caire," born , , bap. 3 November, 1577, at 

Chateau de Bussae, near Saintes; G. F., Francois Roul- 
laud " maitre apothieaire " ; G. M., Jehanne Sanxay of 
Arehiac (near Saintes) ; died before 1630; married Anne 
Boureau, dau. of Pierre Boureau. 

Their children: 

1 Jean Sanxay b. February, l603, bap. Febru- 
ary, 1603; G. F., Fran9ois Sanxay, his paternal grand- 
father; G. M., Marie , wife of Pierre Boureau 

(probably his maternal grandmother). 

2 Marie Sanxay, b. January, l604, bap. January, 

1604. (con, 20). 

3 Suzanne Sanxay, b. 20 January, I6O6, bap. 26 January, 
1606, by Pastor Petit; G. F., Zacharie Boureau; G. M., Su- 
zanne Gaillon. 

4 Sara Sanxay, b. 2 January, I6IO, bap. 4 January, I6IO, by 
Pastor Petit; G. F., Daniel Colet " docteur en medecine"; 
G. M., Sara Melon. 

5 Daniel Sanxay, b. 8 January, I6II, bap. SO January, I6II ; 
G. F., Daniel Sanxay; G. M., Marie Melon, wife of Maitre 
Beaune, " enqueteur au siege presidial de Saintes." 

6 Pierre Sanxay, b. 25 September, I6l3, bap. 27 September, 
l6l3; G. F., Pierre Taumur, "maitre chirurgien"; G. M., 
Anne Bertrand. 

7 Anne Sanxay, b. 20 September, I6l4, bap. 21 September, 
I6l4; G. F., Pierre Fourestier, " sieur de Prequillac"; G. 
M., Marie Sanxay, widow of Pierre Melon. 

8 Marthe Sanxay, b. 13 May, I6I8, bap. 17 May, I6I8, by 
Pastor Rossel ; G. F., Monsieur Fouchier, " avocat " ; G. 
M., Marthe du Pourtau of La Rochelle. 

9 Nathaniel Sanxay, b. 7 August, I619, bap. 11 August, I6l9, 
by Pastor Rossel; G. F., Nathaniel Chasseloup, " procureur 

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au siege presidial de Saintes "; G. M., Anne Brung, wife of 
Pierre Sanxay^ " marchand." 
10 Jacques Sanxay, b. 1 September, 1621, bap. 2 Septem- 
ber, 1621, by Pastor Clave of St. Fort and Montagne; G. F., 
Jacques Chalmot, " ministre de I'eglise de St. Seurin 
d'Uzet"; G. M., Jeanne Ruchault. 

(17) 

A Jehanne Sanxay {possibly the one meiitioned in 
14, sub. 3, hut there is no proof) , married Savarit Tabois, 
" marchand." 

Their children: 

1 Pierre Tabois, b. 15 May, 1601, bap. 20 May, l601; G. F., 
Pierre Sanxay, " marchand " ; G. M., Marie Sanxay, dau. 
of Fran9ois Sanxay, " Hote du Mortier D'Or." 

2 Daniel Tabois, b. 27 August, l602, bap. 1 September, 1602; 
G. F., Fran9ois Sanxay; G. M,, Suzanne Chaillou, wife of 
Helie Roussel. 

3 Daniel Tabois, b. 11 October, 1603, bap. 12 October, 160S; 
G. F., Daniel Sanxay; G. M., Elizabeth Boibilland, dau. of 
Francois Boibilland, " procureur." 

4 Josue Tabois, b. 6 December, l6l3, bap. 15 December, 
1613; G. F., Josue Raboteau; G. M., Suzanne Tallais. 

(18) 

A Marie Sanxay (possibly the one mentioned in 
14, sub. 4i but there is no proof) , married Taboys. 

Their known children: 

1 Samuel Taboys, b. April, , bap. 23 April, , 

by Pastor Bonnet; G. F., Samuel Sanxay, " docteur en 
medecine"; G. M., Anne Boureau, wife of Jehan Sanxay. 

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(19) 



Mahye Sanxay {prohahly the one mentioned in 14, 

sub. 5), b. , , bap. 21 January, 1584, by 

Pastor Bonnet; G. F., Fran9ois Boybilland, " procu- 
reur " ; G. M., Louyse Garnier, wife of Charles Giraud, 
" avoeat au siege presidial de Saintes; " married Pierre 
La Vaurie, " procureur fiscal de St. Seurin d'Uzet." 



Their known children^ 



Daniel La Vaurie, b. 19 March, 1618, bap. 22 March, 1618, 
by Pastor Patru; G. F., Fran9ois Sanxay, his grandfather; 
G. M., Jacquette Condreau, wife of Pierre Fourestier, 
" sieur de Prequellac." 

Marie La Vaurie, b. , , bap. , 

-, by Pastor Rivet of Taillebourg; G. F., Pierre Thau- 



mur, " maitre chirurgien " ; G. M., Suzanne Sanxay, wife 
of Jehan Collet. 



(20) 

Marie Sanxay {see 16, sub 2), b. January, 

1604, bap. January, 1604; G. F., Pierre Boureau, 

her maternal grandfather; G. M., Marie Du Pourtault, 
her paternal grandmother, married Louis Dolbet. 



Their known children: 

1 Louis Dolbet, b. 25 Jan. 1626, bap. 1 Feb., 1626, G. F., 
Etienne de Goute, " avocat au conseil du roy "; G. M., Anne 
Boureau, his grandmother. 

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(21) 

A Jehanne Sanxay {whose connection with the 
family cannot satisfactorily be determined), married 
Ythier Legier. 

Their known children: 

1 Pierre Legier, b. 6 January, 1620, bap. 12 January, 1620; 
G. F., Pierre de Lavaurie, " procureur de St. Seurin 
D'Uzet"; G. M., Madame Fourestier, wife of Mr. Fou- 
restier. 

2 Jehanne Legier, b. 22 November, 1622, bap. 6 December, 
1622, by Pastor Rivet of Taillebourg; G. F., Jacques 
Sanxay " maitre apothicaire " ; G. M., Jehanne Villain, 
wife of Jehan Chadeau, " marchand." 

3 Jacques Legier, b. 4 December, 1624, bap. 19 December, 
1624, by Pastor Roussel; G. F., Jacques Texier, "procu- 
reur au siege de Saintes " ; G. M., Mary Rondaud, wife of 
Pierre Fleurison, " notaire royal." 

4 Pierre Legier, b. 5 February, 1626, bap. 12 February, 
1626, by Pastor Roussel; G. F., Pierre Taumur, "maitre 
chirurgien " ; G. M., Suzanne Taboys. 

5 Jehan Legier, b. 20 March, 1627, bap. , , 

by Pastor Roussel; G. F., Jehan Chasseloup, " avocat"; G. 
M., Annie Barbade, wife of Petre Breider, " marchand." 



(22) 

SAMUEL SANXAY, "honorable homme " and 
" docteur en medecine " at Saintes, must have been born 
as early as about 1562, and possibly earlier. He was 
husband of Elizabeth Fourestier in 1600, and must have 
been married to her much earlier. She was sister of 
Jacques Fourestier, and connected also with Pierre Fou- 

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restier " sieur de Prequillac." He is probably the Doc- 
tor Samuel Sanxay who, on 18 February, 1608, was also 
married by Pastor Pettit to Suzanne Bertrand, but he is 
not known to have had issue by her. 



His known children are: 

1 Anne Sanxay, b. 21 July, I6OO, bap. 23 July, I6OO; G. F., 

Pierre Sanxay, "marchand"; G. M., (see 

23). 

2 Samuel Sanxay, b. 10 April, l602, bap. 12 April, l602; 
G. F., Pierre Fourestier, " marchand " ; G. M., Marie Cap- 
pel,' wife of Fran9ois Fleurison, " maitre chirurgien." 

3 Jacques Sanxay (probably " procureur "), b, 2 October, 
1603, bap. 20 October, 1603; G. F., Jacques Fourestier, 
his maternal uncle; G. M., Jehanne de Bertrand, wife of 
Maistre Lut of , " avocat en la Cour." 



(23) 

An Anne Sanxay {possibly the one mentioned in 
22, sub. 1, but there is no proof), married Mathieu Col- 
lineau, " avocat en la Cour du Parlement de Bordeaux," 
and " juge ordinaire de la ville de Pons." 

Their children: 

1 Jehanne Collineau, b. , , d. , 

{con. 24.). 



2 Benjamin Collineau, b. , , d. 

(con. 25). 

3 Mathieu Collineau, b. , , d. 

(con. 26). 

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(24) 



Jehanne Collineau {see 23, sub. 1), born 

-, , died , , married David Re- 



naudet, " avocat au Parlement de Bordeaux," who died 
in 1663. Children, if any, not known. 

(25) 
Benjamin Collineau {see 23, sub. 2), born 



died , , married Elizabeth 

Brossard. Children, if any, not known. 

(26) 

Mathieu Collineau {see 23, sub. 3), "avocat en 
la Cour," " juge ordinaire de Pons," and " diacre en 
I'eglise de Pons " ; naturahzed in England, 10 October, 
1688; petitioner, as a French Protestant, for letters of 
denization in New York, which were granted 12 July, 
1694; made Freeman in New York 14 June, 1698; mar- 
ried Jeanne Carre, daughter of Ezechiel Carre, student 
at Geneva, and thereafter pastor at Mirambeau, and at 
La Roche- Chalais, France; he was also pastor of the 
French Colony at Narragansett, Rhode Island, in 
America. 

(27) 

A Pierre Sanxay, " honorable homme " {possibly 
son of Samuel {see 22, sub. 2), but there is no proof) y 
" docteur en medecine " at Saintes; "diacre" in the 
church there 1685; prosecuted on account of his religion, 

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together with Phihp Mesnard and Daniel Orillard, the 
last pastor at Saintes before the revocation of the Edict 
of Nantes. He married Suzanne Buchet, known to have 
been living as late as 1716. Orillard became a refugee 
in Holland; not known what became of Pierre. 



Their children so far as known: 

1 Henriette Sanxaj, b. , 1684, bap. 27 February, 

1684, by Minister Durand; G. F., Jean Mayron, " maitre 
orfevre " of Saintes (husband of Jeanne Sanxay) ; G. M., 
Magdelaine de Franquefort of Nieul (near Saintes). 



(28) 

Jeanne Sanxay {possibly near relative of Pierre 
Sanocay mentioned in No. 27, hut there is no proof) was 
married to Jean Mairon, " marchand orfevre." Both 
are known to have been living in 1685. Children, if any, 
not known. 

(29) 

Elizabeth Sanxay (possibly sister of Jeanne 
Sanxay (see 28), hut there is 7io proof), was known to 
have been living in 1685. 

(30) 

A Pierre Sanxay (possibly son of Pierre men- 
tioned in No. 27, hut there is no x>roof) married his wife 
Elizabeth , on the , . They were 

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living in London, England, in 1705, and their names ap- 
pear in the register of the Hungerford (French) Church 
there. 

They had the following children: 

1 Henriette Sanxay, bap. 1716. 

2 Pierre Sanxay. 

(31) 

A Henrietta Sanxay {possibly Henrietta * men- 
tioned in sub. 1, No. 30, but there is no proof), of the 
Parish of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, Westminster, Lon- 
don, England, was married 12 April, 1746, at St. George 
Chapel (May fair), London, to John Dover. Children, 
if any, not known. 



(32) 

About the year 1692 the name of Michel Sanxay 
appears in a document relating to some proceedings, 
taken by Henry Soulard, as guardian, in behalf of the 
minor children of Daniel Meschinet and Ruth Sanxay, 
but it is not known how he was connected with the Sanxay 
family at Saintes, although he was without doubt con- 
nected with it. 

* Note — In the published register of marriages of this church, Henrietta has 
been incorrectly printed Hannah. 

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DESCENDANTS OF REV. JACQUES 
SANXAY IN ENGLAND 



(1) 



Generation. 



REV. JACQUES SANXAY, M.A. {see 12, 
sub. 3„ page 139), Huguenot pastor at St. Jean 
D'Angle, 1677, and Tonnay-Boutonne (Saintonge), 
France, 1683, refugee to England, 1685, and pas- 
tor St. Olave's Church, Exeter, England, 1686- 
1693, was born about the middle of the seventeenth 
century, probably at Taillebourg (near Saintes), 
France, where his father lived, and he was married 
to his wife, Marie, circa 1675. He died, circa 1693, 
at Exeter, where he and his wife, who is known to 
have been living as late as 1717, were buried. 



Their children: 



1 

2 



, born in France, died young. 

, born in France, died young. 

Daniel, b, circa 1679^ d. 24 March, 1739 {continued 2). 

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4 James, b. 2 November, I69O, d. 2 April, 1768 (con. 3). 

5 Claudia, b. , , d. , . 

6 Mary, b. , , d. , {con. Jf) 



(2) 

Rev. Daniel Sanxay, M.A. (see 1), born in 
France, probably at St. Jean D 'Angle, circa 1679, 
died 24 March, 1739, at Cheam, Co. of Surrey, 
Eng., where he is buried; B.A. All Souls College, 
Oxford, 1700; M.A. New College, Oxford, 1703; 
minister, residing at Cheam, Co. of Surrey. He 
married 24 November, 1711, Jane Antrobus, dau, 
Edmund Antrobus of Odrode, Co. of Chester, 
Aunt of Philip Antrobus (who married INIary 
Rowley), and whose son Edmund was created 
Baronet 22 May, 1815. Jane was born circa 1683, 
and died 31 March, 1767, aged 84 years. Buried 
at Cheam. 



Their children. 



1 Jane, b. 5 February, 1712, d. March, 1797 (con. 5). 

2 James, b. 12 April, 1714, d. 23 July, 1766 (con. 6). 

3 Edmund, b. 22 August, 1715, d. 20 October, 1787 (cow. 7). 

4 Robert, bap. 23 October, 1716, druggist. Strand, London, 
d. 1 August 1780. Buried at Cheam. 

5 Hannah, bap. 5 January, 1719:> d. 4 June, 1772 (con. 8). 

6 Daniel, bap. 19 February, 1720, d. 22 December, 1769 
(con. 9). 

7 Richard, died young. 

8 Mary, died young. 

9 Cecil, died young. 

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(3) 

Rev. James Sanxay^ B.A. {see 1), born 2 
November, 1690, at Exeter, Eng. ; died 2 April, 
1768, at Tetcott; B.A. Xew College, Oxford, 1712; 
Lecturer St. Marv's Chapel, Penzance, Co. of 
Cornwall, 1716-1728; Rector of Beaworthy, Co. 
of Devon, 1729-1768; Rector of Tetcott, Co. of 
Devon, 1732-1768; Author, "Lexicon of Aris- 
tophanes"; married 22 December, 1731, Anna 
Badger, dau. Rev. Edward Badger, Rector of 
Bedworth, Co. of Warwick, 1738-1756, born circa 
September, 1709, died 3 July, 1758. Both buried 
at Tetcott. 



Their children. 



1 Anna, bap. 1 October, 1733, d. , . 

2 James, bap. 3 December, 1735, d. circa 1761. ; 

3 Frances, bap. 2 June, 1737, d. November, 1756. 

4 Charlotte, b , , , d. after April, 1776 {con. 

10). 

5 Edward, bap. 9 June, 1740, d. , . 

6 Mary, bap. 6 April, 1742, d. June, 1813. 

7 Claudia, bap. 17 September, 1743, d. August, 1820 

(con. 11). 

8 John (who came to America), bap. 10 September, 1746, d. 
10 March, 1811 (con. 38). 



(4) 

Mary Sanxay {see 1), born , , 

at Exeter, Co. of Devon, England, died at Exeter, 
, ; married circa 1613, Rev. John 

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Courtail, of Exeter, born circa 1690, and died at 
Exeter, October, 1759. Both burials at Ex- 
eter. 



Their children: 



1 Rev. John Courtail, B.A. Claire Hall, Cambridge, 1735, 
M.A., 1739; Rector of Burwash, Co. of Sussex, fifty-one 
years; Archdeacon of Lewes, Co. of Sussex; Canon resi- 
dentiary of Chichester; b. circa 1714, d. February, 

1806 {see 19). 

2 Lewis Courtail, b , , d. before 1806 and 

after 1754. 

(5) 

Jane Sanxay (see 2), born 5 February, 1712, 

at Cheam, Co. of Surrey, died ^March, 1787; 

married at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 14 Feb- 
ruary, 1741, Rev. Thomas Smyth, D.D., of Cod- 
ford, Co. of Wilts, Rector of Codford and Vicar 
of Swindon, Rev. James Sanxay (brother of Jane) , 
Rector of Sutton, officiating. Dr. Smyth was born 

circa 1704, and died February, 1790, aged 86 

years. Both buried at Swindon, Co. of Wilts. No 
issue. 

(6) 

Rev. James Sanxay, M.A. {see 2), Rector of 
Sutton, Co. of Surrey, 1745-1766; Chaplain to the 
first troop of Grenadiers; born 13 April, 1714, at 
Cheam, Co. of Surrey, died 23 July, 1766; B.A. 
St. John's College, Oxford, 1731, M.A., 1734; mar- 

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ried circa 1750, Catharine Firmin of Epsom, Co. of 
Surrey, born circa 1726, died 12 April, 1780. Both 
buried at Sutton. 



Their children, 



1 Henrietta Ann, b. circa 1751, d. 22 August, 1829 {con. 12). 

2 Katharine, bap. at Cheam 16 May, 1752, d. 2 May, 1830. 

3 Jane, bap. at Cheam 5 August, 1753, d. 20 June, 1804, 
{con. 13). 

4 James, b. circa 1756, d. in Army, West Indies. 

5 William, b. circa 1757, d. 15 October, 1813 {con. H). 

6 Caroline, b. circa 1762, d. 13 January, 1850. 

(7) 

Edmund Sanxay (see 2), Surgeon of Essex 
St., London; born 22 August, 1715, at Cheam, Co. 

of Surrey; died 20 October, 1787; married , 

174~, his cousin, INIaria Antrobus, daughter 



of Edmund Antrobus (and ^lary Webb), the 
brother of his mother Jane Antrobus, who married 
Rev. Daniel Sanxay. Maria was born circa 1719, 
and died 28 February, 1777. Both buried at 
Cheam. 



Their children: 



1 Fanny Maria, b. circa, 1747, d. 15 October, 1796 {con. 15). 

2 Mary, b. circa 1748, d. 6 January, 1788. 

(8) 

Hannah Sanxay [see 2), born circa 1719 at 
Cheam, Co. of Surrey; bap. 5 January, 1719, d. 4 

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June, 1772; buried at Astbury Churcb, near Con- 
gleton, Co. of Chester; married circa 1748 (mar- 
riage settlement dated 24 December, 1748), her 
cousin, John Antrobus of Congleton, the son of 
Phihp Antrobus (and Annie Varden) — nephew of 
Edmund Antrobus the father of JNIaria Antrobus, 
who married Edmund Sanxay — nephew of Jane 
Antrobus, who married Rev. Daniel Sanxay — uncle 
of Edmund Antrobus created Baronet 22 May, 

1815 — born , , died 22 November, 

1773; buried at Astbury Church, near Congleton, 
Co. of Chester. 



Their children: 



1 Edmund, b, circa 1750, d. 20 April, 1827 (con. 16). 

2 John, b. circa 1751, d. 2 March, 1813 (con. 17). 



(9) 

Daniel Sanxay {see 2), born at Cheam, Co. 
of Surrey, circa 1720, bap. 19 February, 1720, died 
22 December, 1769, buried at Cheam, 4 January, 
1770; married 13 February, 1753, Susanna Doro- 
thea Brisco, of the Brisco family, Co. of Cumber- 
land, born , , living 1776, on Down- 
ing Street, Westminster. 



Their children: 



1 Henry Maria, b. 5 March, 1759, d. 21 June, 1814 (co7i. IS). 

2 Daniel, b. 31 August, 1760, died young. 

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(10) 

Charlotte Sanxay {see 3), born , 

, at Tetcott, Co. of Devon, died after April, 

1776; married Benjamin Bradley of London, mer- 
chant, born circa 1723, died circa 1793. No issue. 

(11) 

Claudia Sanxay (see 3), born 



-, bap. 17 September, 1743, at Tetcott, Co. of 
Devon, died August, 1820 ; married. 



17 — , John Bradley, gentleman, of Hales Owen, Co. 
of Salop (now in Worcester Co.), born 7 Septem- 
ber, 1736, died, , , buried at Hales 

Owen. 

Their children : 

1 Charlotte, b. 25 May, 1770, d. after 1806. 

2 James, b. 3 April, 1772, d. after 1820. 

3 Charles, b. 29 July, 1774, d. after 1831 (con. 19). 

(12) 

4 Henrietta Ann Sanxay {see 6), born at 

Cheam, circa 1751, died 22 August, 1829; married 

William Cholmley, , , born circa 

1745, died, 20 July, 1785. 

Their children: 

1 Henrietta Anna, b. circa 1777, d. 11 January, 1851. 

2 Mary, b. , , d. , {con 

20). 

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3 Frances Maria, b. circa 1782, d. 15 February, 1861. 

4 Jane, b. circa 1784, d. 2 February, 1850. 

5 Lewin, b. circa 1784, d. 22 July,* 1849 (con. 21). 



(13) 

4 Jane Sanxay (see 6), born circa 1753, bap. 5 

August, 1753, at Cheam, Co. of Surrey, died 20 
June, 1804, buried at Cheam; married, 8 July, 
1785, Rev. Henry Peach, M.A., Rector at Cheam, 
1780-1813, born circa 1741, died 10 March, 1813. 
Buried at Cheam. 



Their children : 

1 Edmond, b. circa 1786, bap. 7 July, 1786, d. 3 May, 1833. 

2 Henrietta Mathilda, b. 10 August, 1787, bap. 20 Septem- 
ber, 1787, d. 20 June, 1876 (con. 22). 

3 Edward, b. circa 1789, bap. 20 August, 1789, d. 11 April, 
1806. Buried at Cheam. 

4 Jane, b. circa 1791, d. May, 1869 (con. 21). 

5 Mary, b. circa 1794, d. 25 June, I860 (con. 23). 

6 Amelia Catharine, b. circa 1796, d. 5 July, 1820. Buried 
at Cheam. 



(14) 

William Sanxay (see 6), lawyer, born circa 
1757; died 15 October, 1813, at Epsom, Co. of Sur- 
rey; buried at Sutton, Co. of Surrey; married Ma- 
tilda Clerk, born circa 1757, died 24 May, 1816. 
Buried at Sutton. No issue. 

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(15) 

Fanny Maria Sanxay {see 7), born circa 
1747, died 15 October, 1796; married 3 July, 1769, 
Richard Davenport, of Court-Garden, Great-lNIar- 
low, Co. of Buckingham, Surgeon, Essex Street, 
London, Sheriff Co. of Buckingham, 1789, born 
, , died after 1807. No issue. 

(16) 
Edmund Antrobus {see 8), born 



-, died 20 April, 1827, and buried at St. Martins- 
in-the-Fields, Westminster (London) ; married his 
wife Ann (Antrobus) , . 

Their children : 

1 Edmund E., b. 14 October, 1806, d. 3 May, 1866 (con. 24). 

(17) 

4 John Antrobus {see 8), born, circa 1751, 
died, 2 March, 1813; buried, at Cheam, in the family 
vault of Edmund Sanxay; married his wife Char- 
lotte (Antrobus)* , . No issue. 

* Note — She became a widow, and afterwards married a Mr. Willard, living 
at Eastbourne. 

(18) 

4 Henry Maria Sanxay {see 9), born 3 ^larch, 

1759, died at Weybridge, Co. of Surrey, 21 June, 
1816, buried at Cheam, Co. of Surrey; married, 29 

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May, 1788, Osborne Barwell, of Abington Street, 
Westminster, born 23 August, 1755, died 2 October, 
1826. Buried at Cheam. 



Their children: 

1 Osborne, b. 8 April, 1789, d. 13 February, 1872 (con. 25). 

2 Nathaniel, b. 31 December, 1791, d. 15 March, 1866 {con. 
26). 

3 Edward Edmund, b. 10 May, 1796, d. 9 June, 1796. 

(19) 

4 Charles Br^vdley (see 11), born 29 July, 

1774, probably at Hales Owen, Co. of Salop, died 
after 1832; married at St. George Church, Han- 
over Square, London (Westminster), 26 March, 
1801, Sophia Frances Albert, dau. Lewis Albert of 
Kew-Green, Co. of Surrey, and St. James Palace 
(witnesses to marriage, Edmund Antrobus, Wil- 
liam John Albert, and Eliza Albert). By royal 
license in 1806 (record at Heralds College, Lon- 
don) , Charles Bradley assumed the name and arms 
of Courtail, in order to accept the provisions of the 
will of his cousin, Rev. John Courtail (see 4) , dated 
27 April, 1803, and proved 22 Februaiy, 1806. He 
thereby secured the bulk of his cousin's fortune. 
In 1814, he became head of the firm of Courtail, 
Harrison & Toplady, Factors and Merchants, Milk 
Street, London, and so continued until 1832, since 
which time there is no record of him that has been 
discovered. 

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Their children: 



1 Charles, b. , , d. 

2 , b. , , d. 



(20) 



5 
~3 



Mary Cholmley {see 12), born , 

, died, , ; buried, at Lincoln, Co. 

of Lincoln ; married , , Rev. Leonard 

Ely Towne, B.A. Emanuel College, Cambridge 
University, 1806, and M.A. 1809, Rector of Wools- 

thorpe, and Vicar of Utterby; born , 

, died after 1829; buried at Lincoln. No issue. 



(21) 

Lewin Cholmley (see 12), born circa 1784, 
died 22 July, 1849; lived on Eaton Square, London, 
and at West End, near Southampton, in Hamp- 
shire; married his cousin Jane Peach (see 13) , born 

circa 1791, and died May, 1869. Both buried 

at Worthing, Co. of Sussex. No issue. 

(22) 

Henrietta Mathilda Peach (see 13), born 
at Cheam, 10 August, 1787, died 20 June, 1876; 
buried at Worthing, Co. of Sussex; married 26th 

January, 1824, Thomas Comber, born , 

, died , . No issue. 

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(23) 

Mary Peach {see 13), born circa 1794, died 
25 June, 1860; buried at Worthing, Co. of Sussex; 
married at Cheam, 17 January, 1822, Major-Gen- 
eral Sir Charles Greene EUicombe, K.C.B., engi- 
neer officer in the British Army, born circa 1784; 
distinguished in Peninsular War under the Duke of 
Wellington; living, 1846, at Tudor Colfage, Worth- 
ing; died at Worthing June, 1871. No issue. 

(24) 

Edmund E. Antrobus {see 17), born 14 Octo- 
ber, 1806, died 3 May, 1866; married at Epstone 
Church, London, 6 October, 1829, Frances Carlisle, 
born, , , died 24 January, 1864. 



Their children: 



1 Frances Ann, b. 29 October, 1830, living, 1906 (con. 27). 

2 Edmund William, b. 27 March, 1832, d. 13 April, 1832. 

3 Helen Louisa, b. 19 April, 1833, d. 22 January, 1852. 

4 Edmund Antrobus, b. 1 1 August, 1834, d. 5 September, 
1834. 

5 Emma Maria, b. 12 February, 1836. 

(25) 

Capt. Osborne Bar well, British Army, {see 
18), born 8 April, 1789, died 13 February, 1872; 
served under Duke of Wellington; buried, at 
Dieppe, Normandie, France; married at St. Bride's 
Church, London, 10 May, 1827, Mary Elizabeth j 

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Chapman, dau. George Chapman, British Consul 

at Dieppe, born , , died 7 April, 1775 ; 

buried at Dieppe. 



Their children: 



1 Osborne Nathaniel Henry, b. 10 September, 1829, living 
1906 (con. 28). 

2 Richard Stanstead Wall, b. 8 May, 1831, d. 20 May, I86I 
(con. 29). 

3 Arthur Henry Sanxay, b. 13 July, 1834, living I906 (con. 
30). 

(26) 

5 Capt. Nathaniel Barwell^ R. N. (see 18), 
born 31 December, 1791, died 15 March, 1886; 
buried at Plymouth, Co. of Devon; married at 
Weybridge, Co. of Surrey, 21 February, 1822, Su- 
san Ann Middleton, dau. of John Charles Middle- 
ton and Charlotte Beckford, born , , 

died at Wernbury, Plymouth, 15 July, 1855. 
Buried at Plymouth. 

Their children: 

1 Edward Henry, b. 28 December, 1822, d. 12 October, 1865. 

2 Maria Emelia, b. 24 June, 1824, living 1907 (con. 31). 

(27) 

6 Frances Ann Antrobus (see 24-) , born 29 Oc- 
tober, 1830, living 1906, at West Kensington, Lon- 
don; married 7 September, 1854, Thomas Cowell, 
M.D., born 17 March, 1821, died 29 July, 1869. 

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Their children: 

1 Wilfred Hammerstone, b. 2 October, 1856, living 1905, at 
West Oxford, Co. of Oxford, England. 

2 Mabel Armstrong, b. 24 September, 1858, living 1906, at 
West Kensington, London. 

3 Sibyl Antrobus, b. 23 March, 1862, living 1905, at Buenos 
Aires, South America {con. 32). 

4 Sibert Formel Antrobus, b. 24 September, 1864, living 1906, 
W. Kensington, London. 

5 Aline Antrobus, b. 13 January, 1865, living 1906 (con. S3). 

6 Lilian Antrobus, b. 25 February, 1866, living I906, W. Ken- 
sington, London. 

7 Ella Antrobus, b. 2 November, 1867, living 1906, W. Ken- 
sington, London. 

8 Alaric Carlisle Antrobus, b. 4 April, 1869^ d. 11 December, 
1905, Schoude, West Africa. 

9 Cedric Sanxay Antrobus, b. 2 March, 1870, living 1906, W. 
Kensington, London. 

(28) 

6 Capt. Osborne Nathaniel Henry Baravell, 
R. N., {see 25), born 10 September, 1829, in Nor- 
mandie, France, living 1906, at Billinghurst, Co. of 
Sussex; married (1) Margaretta Maria Jacson, 12 
August, 1887, born , , died, 22 De- 
cember, 1870; buried at Kiedford, Co. of Sussex, 
and (2) Mary Agnes Monttram, 14 Sej)tember, 
1875, born , , living 1907, at Billing- 
hurst. 

By Margaretta Maria Jacson: 

1 Maud Sanxay, b. 20 May, I860, living 1905 {con. 3i). 

2 Ella Mary, b. 27 April, 1861, d. 21 February, 1905. 

3 Mary Evelyn Rose, b. 20 March, 1865, d. 27 April, 1881. 

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By Mary Agnes Monttram: 

4 Osborne Arthur Charles, b. 9 August, 1876, d. 6 Septem- 
ber, 1876. 

5 Muriel Rose Lucy, b. 30 August, 1879, living 1906. 

6 May, b. 21 May, 1884, living 1906. 

(29) 

6 Capt. Richard Stanstead Wall Barwell, 
British Army {see 25), born 8 May, 1831, in Nor- 
mandie, France; British Consul at Tarsus, Asia 
^Nlinor and at Reunion, Reunion Island, in the In- 
dian Ocean; died 20 May, 1861, at Reunion; mar- 
ried , 1857, Concetta Gerbini, daughter 

of the Italian Consul at Tarsus, born , 

, living 1906. 

Their children: 

1 Marie Antoinette, b. 3 May, 1859, d. 8 May, I860, at 
Tarsus. 

(30) 

6 Rev. Arthur Henry Sanxay Barwell, 

M.A., F.S.A. (see 25), born 13 July, 1834, in 
Normandie, France; B.A. Trinity College, Cam- 
bridge, 1860, and M.A., 1863;^ Prebendary of 
Fittleworth; Canon of Chichester; Rector of Clap- 
ham, Co. of Sussex, 1874-1904; Director in old 
French Hospital, London; living 1906, at Bletch- 
ingly, Co. of Surrey; married 25 September, 1861, 
Frances Elizabeth Rose Foster-^Ielliar, of Wells,. 

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Co. of Somerset, dau. A. Foster-lNIelliar, born 



, , living 1906, at Bletchingly. No issue. 

(31) 

6 Maria Emelia Barwell {see 26), born 24 
June, 1824, living 1907, 3 Dunsany Road, W. Ken- 
sington (London) ; married 15 September, 1852, 
Rev. Joseph Lymebear Harding, B.A., second son 
of Rev. John Lymebear, and Charlotte, Harding; 
matric. Exeter College, Oxford, 20 April, 1837; 
B.A. New Inn Hall, 1842; Rector of Littleham, 
Co. of Devon, 1843-1878, born circa 1818, died 16 
January, 1893, at Fulham (London). 

Their children: 

1 Osborn John Charles Lymebear, b. 17 December, 1854. 
Living in London, 1907 {con. 35). 

2 Josephine Lymebear, b. 18 March, 1856, d. 6 February, 
1904 (con. 36). 

S John Lymebear, b. 22 October^, I860. Living, 1907, in 

London. 
4 Charles Lymebear, b. 26 February, 1862. Living, 1907, in 

London. 

(32) 

7 Sibyl Antrobus Cowell {see 27), born 23 
March, 1862, living 1905, at 841 Calle Libertad, 
Buenos Aires, South America; married at London, 
England, 21 March, 1899, George Robert Daven- 
port, born , , living 1906, in Buenos 

Aires, S. A. 

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Their children. 



1 Edmund John Cowell, b. 25 August, 1892, living 1906. 

2 Geoffrey Cowell, b. 20 August, 1895, living 1906. 



(33) 

Aline A. Cowell {see 27), born 13 January, 
1865, living 1905, at Biggleswade, Co. of Bed- 
ford; married at London, 19 April, 1898, Rev. Gil- 
bert Kennedy Cassels; B.A. Trinity College, Cam- 
bridge, 1893, M.A., 1897; Vicar of Old Warden, 

Bedfordshire, 1903, born , . Living 

1905, at Biggleswade. 



Their children : 



1 Melville Andrew, b. 24 May, 1901, living 1905. 

2 Donald Kennedy, b. 17 December, 1902, living 1905. 



(34) 

^Iaud Sanxay Babwell {see 28), born 20 
May, 1860, living 1905, at Worthing, Co. of Sus- 
sex; married June, 1883, Montague jNIont- 

tram, born , , died December, 

1892. 



Their children: 



1 Rosa Jane, died in Japan in infancy. 

2 Francis Henry, b. 24 April, 1891, living 1905. 

3 Osborne Arthur, b. 19 June, 1892, living 1905. 

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(35) 

Osborne John Charles Lymebear Harding 
{see 31), born 17 December, 1854, living, 1907, in 

London, married , , , 

born , , living, 1907, in London. No 

issue. 

(36) 

Josephine Lymebear Harding (see 31), born 
18 March, 1856, died 6 February, 1904; married 
, , John Bolton, born , 

-. Lived at No. 45, Adelaide Road, Brockley, 



Kent. 



Their children. 



1 Son, name not obtained. 

2 Son^ name not obtained. 



(37) 

The following relates to a Sanxay, who lived in 
England, but whose connection with the family is 
not known. 

Christopher H. Sanxay^ born , 

, died , 1799; married, at Paris, 

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France, 17 Xovember, 1788, INIrs. Eleanor Brown 
{Gentleman s Magazine, Vol. 58, p. 1124^). 

The following concerning his death is taken 
from the Gentleman s Magazine, Vol. 69, page 
624 : " At Maesgwyn, the seat of Walter Powell, 
Esq., C. H. Sanxay, Esq., formerly of the Rominy 
fencibles, but late of Pembrokeshire. 

" This gentleman, together with Mr. Powell 
and Mr. Davis, partook of some posset, in which 
ginger was used, and in which unfortunately was 
arsenic, which had been sent for to poison rats, and 
had accidentall}^ become mixed. The effects were 
immediate. INIr. Powell and Mr. Davis, after suf- 
fering three days, recovered. Mr. Sanxay ling- 
ered eight days, after which it proved fatal. He 
exhibited a picture of perfect resignation, and real 
fortitude, after being aware it must prove fatal." 
{This Mr. Powell was High Sheriff of Carmen- 
thenshire, Wales. — t. f. s.) 



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DESCENDANTS OF REV. JACQUES 
SANXAY IN AMERICA 



Generation. 



(38) 



JOHN SANXAY (see 3), born at Tetcott, 

County of Devon, England, September, 1746, 

came to New York prior to 1773, and was married 
at New York, 14 February, 1775, to Sarah De- 
voe (Devaux), by Rev. Dr. Charles Inglis of 
Trinity Church. He died at Mt. Pleasant, West- 
chester County, N. Y., 10 March, 1811. She was 
born 8 December, 1756, and died 18 February, 
1801. She is buried in St. Paul's Churchj^ard, New 
York. 



Their children. 



1 Robert, b. 26 October, 1775, d. 18 November, 1775. 

2 Elizabeth, b. 15 February, 1778, d. — September, 1783. 

3 Charlotte, b. 19 January, 1779, d. 24 June, I860. 

4 James Littleton, b. 6 August, 1780, d. 19 August, 1811. 

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5 Catharine, b. 18 March, 1782, d. 7 June, 1783. 

6 Thomas Price, born at sea, 9 September, 1783, d. 30 Sep- 
tember, 1788. 

7 Mary, b. at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 18 August, 1785, d. 7 
September, 1787. 

8 John, b. 18 July^ 1787, d. 5 December, 1842 {continued 
39). 

9 Edmund Davenport, b. 9 June, 1789, d. 4 September, 1835 
(con. 62). 

10 Frederic, b. 27 October, 1791, d. 7 February, 1875 {con. 
79). 

11 Richard Davenport, b. 10 August, 1794, d. 1 January, 
1870 (con. 97). 

12 Joseph, b. 11 April, 1796, d. 12 April, 1796. 

All these children, except as above mentioned, 
were born in the city of New York. Of these, John, 
Edmund Davenport, Frederic, and Richard Daven- 
port, reared families, and their descendants will be 
presented separately. 



JOHN SANXAY BRANCH 

Generation. 

(39) 

4 JOHN SANXAY {see 38), born 18 July, 

1787, in New York, was married in New Jersey, 22 
June, 1815, to Anna Nutt, born 13 October, 1788, 

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at or near Bordentowii, N. J. He died 5 Decem- 
ber, 1842, and she 7 August, 1872, and both are 
buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Their children: 



1 Sarah, b. 14 June, 1816, d. 4 July, 1877 (continued JfO). 

2 Julia, b. 2 March, 1819, d. 21 March, 1843. 

3 Skeffington, b. 7 December, 1821, d. 18 February, 1868 
{con. Jfl). 

4 Charlotte Ann, b. 25 October, 1822, d. 18 October, 1895 
{con. Jf2). 

5 Joseph Frederic, b. 15 January, 1825, d. 21 August, 1903 
{con. Jf.3). 

6 Jane Louise, b. 2 January, 1828, d. 20 October, 1857 {con. 

U)- 

(40) 

Sarah Sanxay (see 39), born 14 June, 1816, 
at New York, died 4 July, 1877; married James 
Bowman Wilkins, born 20 September, 1818, died 
1 May, 1895; both are buried in Greenwood Ceme- 
tery, Brooklyn. 



Their children: 



1 Anna, b. circa 1841, d. 25 May, 1875 {con. ^5). 

2 Charlotte Elizabeth, b. circa 1846, d. 9 November, I860. 

3 John Frederic, b. November, 1848. Living, 1905, at 

Stonington, Conn. {con. ^6). 

4 Louisa, died young. 

5 Julia Louise, b. 12 October, 1855. Living, 1906, in New 
York {con. ^7). 

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(41) 

5 Skeffington Sanxay (see 39), lawyer, born 17 

December, 1821, at New York, died 18 February, 
1868; buried in Greenwood Cemetery; married at 
New York, 15 September, 1846, Jeannette Fickett, 
daughter of Francis Fickett and Mary Augusta 
Sears, born 11 May, 1826, died — — February, 
1907. 

Their children: 

1 Mary, b. 31 May, 1847, d. 31 May, 1904 {con. J^S). 

2 Edward Curtis, b. 30 July, 1849. Living, 1906, Liverpool, 
England {con. Jf9). 

3 Julia, b. 18 March, 1851, d. 27 October, 1893 (con. 60). 

4 Jeannette, b. 1 May, 1856, d. 1 May, 1890. 

5 Elizabeth, b. 30 December, 1858, d. 14 September, 1887 
{con. 51). 

6 Charles, b. I6 January, 1863, d. 28 April, 1903 {con. 52). 

(42) 

5 Charlotte Ann Sanxay (see 39), born 25 

October, 1822, died 18 October, 1895; married Wil- 
liam Butts, born 25 September, 1821, died 27 Feb- 
ruary, 1900. 

Their children: 

1 Julia, b. , , d. 18 December, 1878. 

(43) 

5 Joseph Frederic Sanxay {see 39), born 15 

January, 1825, at New York, died 21 August, 1903, 

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at Sugar Hill, N. H., buried in Greenwood Ceme- 
tery; married Agnes Steele, born 4 January, 1831, 
died 18 November, 1887. 



Their children: 



1 Agnes, b. , , d. 11 March, 1901, at Paris, 

France (con. 53). 

2 Anna, b. , . Living, 1906, at Brooklyn, 

N. Y. 

3 John, b. 3 February, 1856, d. 22 January, 1857. 

4 Charlotte, b. , . Living, 1906, at Atlantic 

City, N. J. (con. 5Jf). 

5 Joseph Frederic, b. 20 March, 1863. Living, 1906, at 
Seattle, Wash (con. 55). 

(44.) 

Jane Louisa Sanxay {see 39), born 



January, 1828, died 20 October, 1857; married Gus- 
tavus A. Weinenger, born circa 1816, died 28 April, 
1858, buried in Greenwood Cemetery. No issue. 

(45) 
6 Anna Wilkins (see 40), born 



1841, died 25 May, 1875; married circa 1860, Henry 
Guy Foggan, son of John and Mary Foggan, 

born , 1841, at New York, died 

, 1901, Brooklyn. 



Their children. 



1 Charlotte Ann, b. 31 August, 1868. Living, 1906, in New 
York (con. 56). 

2 Henry Wilkins, b. December, 1874, d. August, 

1875. 

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(46) 

6 John Frederic Wilkins (see 40), born 

November, 1848. Living, 1905, at Stonington, 

Conn.; married Hannah Teed, b. , , 

d. , . 

Their children: 

1 One child, died in infancy. 

(47) 

6 Julia Louisa Wilkins {see 40), born 12 Oc- 

tober, 1855; married 10 November, 1881, at Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., Clarence Eugene Gunther, M.D. Both 
hving, 1905, in New York. No issue, 1905. 

(48) 

6 Mary Sanxay (see 41), born 31 May, 1847, 

died 31 May, 1904; married 24 October, 1867, at 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Edward N. Norton, son of John 
Norton and Hannah Nason, born 16 August, 1845. 
Living in New York, 1906. 

Their children: 

1 Skeffington Sanxay, b. 24 July, 1868. Living, I9O6, in New 
York {^con. 57). 

2 Edward N., Jr., b. 9 October, 1871. Living, 1906, in New 
York {con. 58). 

3 Mary Louise, b. 24 August, 1873. Living, 1906, Minneap- 
olis, Minn. (con. 59). 

4 John Russell, b. 3 December, 1877. Living, 1906, Minne- 
apolis, Minn. {con. 60). 

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(49) 

6 Edward Curtis Sanxay {see ^i), born 30 

July, 1849, living, 1906, at Liverpool, England; 
married at Brooklyn, N. Y., 16 October, 1878, 
Louise Cox, daughter of Henry Henshaw Cox 
and Louise Sutton Underbill, born 30 October, 
1852, at Brooklyn, N. Y. Living, 1906, at Liver- 
pool. 

Their children: 

1 SkefBngton, b. 6 October, 1879- Living, Liverpool, Eng. 

2 Edward Henry Kellogg, b. 26 September, 1880. Living, 
Liverpool, Eng. 

(50) 

6 Julia Sanxay (see 41), born 18 March, 1851, 

died 27 October, 1893, at Brooklyn, N. Y., buried 

at Greenwood; married at Brooklyn, October, 

1885, Donald R. Corbin, born , , 

died 5 November, 1904, at New York. 

Their children: 

1 Edna, who died in infancy. 

(51) 

6 Elizabeth Sanxay (see 4-1), born 30 Decem- 

ber, 1858, died 14 September, 1887, at Brooklyn; 
married 12 February, 1878, Caldwell W. ^IcAlis- 
ter, born 18 November, 1854, died 11 July, 1906, 
at Sea- Gate, L. I. 

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Their children: 

1 Howard Livingston, b. 19 March, 1879- Living, 1906, at 
New York (con. 61). 

2 Caldwell Warner, b. 1 June, 1881, d. 19 November, 188-. 

3 Charles Skeffington, b. 2 February, 1887. Living, 1906, 
New York. 

(52) 

6 Charles Sanxay (see 4-1), born 16 Janu- 

ary, 1863, died 28 April, 1903; married at Staten 

Island, N. Y., February, 1888, Edith G. Hol- 

loek, dau. of Frederick HoUock, M.D., b. 

, . Living 1906. 

Their children : 

1 Elizabeth, b. 19 June, 1889- Living 1906. 

2 Eleanor, b. 21 September, 1891. Living 1906. 

(53) 

6 Agnes Sanxay (see 43), b. , , 

d. 11 March, 1901, at Paris, France; married at 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 26 April, 1881, Henry Graham 
Hilton, son of ex-Judge Henry Hilton and Helen 

Bancker, b. , , d. 9 August, 1905. 

No issue. 

(54) 

6 Charlotte Sanxay (see 43), b. , 

, living, 1906, at Atlantic City, N. J.; married 

at Brooklyn, N. Y., 10 January, 1900, Walter 
Reed, son of James Bendick Reed and Lucy Moth- 

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ershead, born Westmoreland County, Va. No issue, 

1906. 

(55) 

6 Joseph Frederic Sanxay, Jr. (see 43), born 
20 :March, 1863, Brooklyn, N. Y., living, 1906, at 
Seattle, Wash.; married 29 March, 1890, at Ta- 
coma. Wash., Selma jNIiller, dau. of Karl and 
Emelia H. Miller, born 16 June, 1865, at Madison, 
Wis. No issue, 1906. 

(56) 

7 Charlotte Anna Foggan (see 45), born 31 
August, 1868, Brooklyn, X. Y., living, 1906, New 
York; married Samuel Fowler Phelps, son of 
Samuel Fowler and Kate C. Phelps, born 25 Feb- 
ruary, 1869. No issue, 1906. 

(57) 

7 Skeffington Sanxay 'Nortgn (see 48), born 
24 July, 1868, living, 1906, New York; married at 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 12 November, 1893, Susan King, 
born , . 

Their children: 

1 Esther, b. 8 August, 1894. Living, 1906, at New York. 

2 Rose Howard, b. 3 March, 1897. Living, 1906, at New 
York. 

3 Skeffington, b. 14 September, 1899- Living, I906, New 
York. 

4 Ethel, b. 17 August, 1903. Living, 19O6, New York. 

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(58) 

Edward N. Norton, Jr. (see 4-8), born 9 Oc- 
tober, 1871, living, 1906, at New York; married 

, 18 — , Isabella Erickson, born 

, , died at New York , 1905. 



No issue. 

(59) 

7 Mary Louise Norton [see 48), born 24 Au- 

gust, 1873, at Brooklyn, N. Y., living, 1906, at 

Minneapolis, Minn.; married , 18 — , 

Charles W. Cartwright, son of Edward S. Cart- 
wright and Marie Louise Wilcox, born , 

1863, at Hudson, Ohio. No issue, 1906. 

(60) 

7 John Russell Norton (see 48), born 3 De- 
cember, 1877, living, 1906, at Minneapolis, Minn.; 
married , 1904, Helen E. Blitz, daugh- 
ter of Adolph Blitz, M.D., and Anna Davenport 
Wicks, born , 1878, at Nashville, Tenn. 

Their children: 

1 Bertha Davenport, b. 27 April, 1905. 

(61) 

7 Howard Livingston McAlister (see 51), 

born 19 March, 1879, at Brooklyn, N. Y., living, 
1906, at New York; married 6 June, 1904, Alice 
Coleman. No issue, 1907. 

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EDMUND DAVENPORT SANXAY BRANCH 

(62) 
Generation. 

4 EDMUND DAVENPORT SANXAY {see 

38), bom 6 June, 1789, at New York, died 4 Sep- 
tember, 1835; settled at Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, 
and was there married 27 JNlarch, 1810, by Rev. D. 
Johnston, Rector of St. George's Church, to Lydia 
Belknap, dau. of William Belknap and INIartha 
Carscadden, born 4 February, 1788, at Newburgh, 
and died there 7 December, 1870. 

Their children: 

1 Charlotte, b. 21 December, 1811, d. 27 March, 1864, {con- 
tinued 63). 

2 William Belknap, b. 1 October, 1813, d. 29 December, 1834. 

3 Edmund Smith, b. 21 February, 1815, d. 7 July, 1848 (con. 

6i). 

4 John Henry Hobart, b. 18 November, 1819, d. 5 November, 
1862 {con.' 65). 

5 Elizabeth Martha, b. 12 August, 1821, d. 2 September, 
1822. 

6 Stephen Brown, b. 9 June, 1823, d. , 1876 

{con. 66). 

7 Lvdia White, b. 7 September, 1826, d. 30 April, 1876 {con. 
67). 

8 George Washington, b. 24 April, 1831, d. 3 May, 1832. 

9 Charles Frederic, b. 12 February, 1834, d. 9 January, 1835. 

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(63) 

5 Charlotte Sanxay {see 62), born 21 De- 

cember, 1811, died 27 March, 1864; married 6 Sep- 
tember, 1837, at Newburgh, Charles Sanford, born 
25 July, 1805, at Roxbury, Conn., died 10 August, 
1838. 

Their children: 

1 Charles Edmund, b. 11 October, 1838, d. 4 April, 1859. 

(64) 

5 Edmund Smith Sanxay (see 62), born 21 

February, 1815, at Newburgh, died 7 July, 1848; 
married (1) 24 January, 1839, Eliza Mclntyre, 
born 10 April, 1814, Pleasant Vallej^ Dutchess 
Co., N. Y., died 1 August, 1841; married (2) 18 
August, 1842, Cornelia E. Hoffman, born 15 No- 
vember, 1812, at Newburgh, died 4 December, 
1853. 

By Eliza Mclntyre: 

1 Edmund, b. 21 October, 1839- Living, 1906, Newburgh 
{con. 68). 

2 Eliza, b. 26 July, 1841, d. 15 August, 1841. 

By Cornelia E. Hoffman: 

1 Frederic Davenport, b. 5 May, 1843, d. 23 November, 1869- 

2 Charles Downing, b. 14 December, 1844, d. 21 November, 
1875. 

3 George Washington, b. 25 February, 1847, d. 12 March, 
1894. Buried at Chicago, 111. (con. 69). 

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(65) 



John Henry Hobart Sanxay {see 62), born 
18 November, 1819, at Newburgh, died 5 Novem- 
ber, 1862; married 16 August, 1843, Marie Antoi- 
nette Phillips, born 12 January, 1820, died 5 Au- 
gust, 1896. 



Their children: 



1 William Belknap, b. 12 November, 1844, d. 8 July, 1881 
(con. 70). 

2 Charlotte, b. 26 November, 1846, d. 7 December, 1849. 

3 Marie Antoinette, b. 31 July, 1849- Living, 1906, at New- 
burgh (cow. 71). 



(66) 

Stephen Brown Sanxay {see 62), born 9 
June, 1823, died , 1876; married 22 No- 
vember, 1848, Rachel S. Post, dau. of Caleb and 
Mary Post, born 28 May, 1821, died 15 March, 
1893. 



Their children: 



1 Edmund Davenport, b. 20 October, 1849, d. 6 September, 
1850. 

2 Edmund Davenport, b. 4 February, 1851. Living 1905 
{con. 72). 

3 James Post, b. 25 April, 1853, d. 7 April, 1854. 

4 Lydia Belknap, b. 21 June, 1855, d. 18 July, 1856. 

5 William Belknap, b. 21 June, 1855, d. 18 July, 1856. 

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(67) 

Lydia White Sanxay (see 62), born 7 Sep- 
tember, 1826, died 30 April, 1876; married 20 Sep- 
tember, 1848, Joseph Henry Hoffman Chapman, 
born 12 March, 1826, died 1 August, 1905. 



Their children: 



1 Maria HofFman^ b. l6 September, 1849. Living 1906 {con. 
73). 

2 Davenport Sanxay, b. 1 January, 1852, d. 12 May, 1853. 

3 Euphemia Verplanck, b. 18 August, 1854, d. 31 May, 1872. 

4 Joseph Henry, b. 29 October, 1856, d. 19 August, 190O. 

5 Francis Edwin, b. 30 March, 1859, d. 9 September, 1898. 

6 John Sanxay, b. 23 May, 1866, d. 9 April, 1873. 

7 George Frederic, b. 7 June, 1869- Living 1906. 



(68) 

6 Edmund Sanxay (see 64-), born 21 October, 

1839, Hving, 1906, at Newburgh, N. Y.; married (1) 
25 April, 1861, Mary Eliza Roe, born 3 February, 

1840, Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., died 25 Febru- 
ary, 1868; married (2) Irene W. Millspaugh, born 
Walden, Orange Co., N. Y., 26 July, 1851, died 13 
January, 1896; married (3) 27 June, 1903, Bessie 
R. Bishop, born 14 November, 1860, at Annapolis, 
Nova Scotia, living, 1906, at Newburgh. 

By Mary Eliza Roe: 

1 Marie Antoinette, b. 8 January, 1865, at New York, d. 1 
October, 1880. 

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By Irene W. Millspaugh : 

1 William Belknap, b. 26 April, 1878. Living, 1906, at 
Newburgh, N. Y. 

By Bessie R. Bishop: 

No issue, 1906. 

(69) 

G George Washington Sanxay (see 64-), born 

25 February, 1847, at Newburgh, N. Y., died 12 
March, 1894, at St. Louis, Mo., buried at Chicago, 
111.; married 26 October, 1879, at Chicago, Anna 
Augusta Corey, born 8 January, 1856, at Des 
Moines, Iowa, died 12 June, 1895, at New York. 

Their children: 

1 George Percival, b. 10 July, 1881, d. September, 1881. 

2 Eugene Hoffman, b. 5 August, 1884, d. 12 April, 1886. 

3 Ethel Corey, b. 26 March, 1887. Living, 1906, New York. 

4 Frank Darby, b. 20 July, 1891, d. 15 March, 1893. 

(70) 

6 William Belknap Sanxay {see 65), born 12 

November, 1844, at Newburgh, N. Y., died 8 July, 
1881 ; married 13 March, 1872, at Philadelphia, Pa., 
Mary Addie Coney, born 22 October, 1852, at Bos- 
ton, JNIass., died 22 August, 1878. 

Their children: 

1 Marie Antoinette, b. 13 February, 1873, d. 17 May, 1885. 

2 Addie, b. 23 November, 1874. Living, 1906, at Newburgh. 

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(71) 

6 Marie Antoinette Sanxay {see 65), born 

31 July, 1849, at Newburgh, N. Y., living, 1906, 
at Newburgh; married 8 June, 1870, George W. 
Green, born 8 July, 1840, at Newburgh, living, 
1906, at Newburgh. 

Their children: 

1 William Sanxay Green, b. 12 July, 1874. Living 1906 
{con. 7Jf). 

(72) 

6 Edmund Davenport Sanxay {see 66), born 4 

February, 1851, living, 1906, at Colchester, Conn.; 
married in Alaska, 24 July, 1897, Lulu Castledine 
Goodchild, dau. of Rev. R. G. Goodchild, Phila- 
delphia, Pa., born 17 August, 1854, living 1906. 
No issue, 1906. 

(73) 

6 Maria Hoffman Chapman {see 67), born 16 

September, 1849, living, 1906, at Newburgh, N. Y. ; 
married 27 April, 1870, Robert Whitehill, born 1 
June, 1845, Glasgow, Scotland, died 17 June, 1893, 
at Newburgh. 

Their children: 

1 Robert Chapman, b. 13 May, 1871. Living, 1906, at New- 
burgh {con. 75'). 

2 Effie Chapman, b. 6 June, 1873, Living, 1906, Newburgh. 

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3 Walter Hugh, b. 20 February, 1876. Living, 1906, at New- 
burgh. 

4 Hattie Louise, b. 31 December, 1877. Living, 1906, at New- 
York (con. 76). 

5 Addie Marie, b. 29 March, 1880. Living, I906, at New- 
burgh (con. 77). 

6 Ralph Waldo, b. 19 May, 1882. Living, 1906, at New- 
burgh (con. 78). 

7 Arthur Murray, b. 24 August, 1884. Living, 1906, at New- 
burgh. 

8 Bessie Bryson, b. 15 September, 1887. Living, I906, at 
Newburgh. 

9 Marguerite, b. 17 November, 1889, d. 23 December, 1894. 
10 Albert Edwin, b. 8 May, 1891. Living, 1906, at New- 
burgh. 

(74) 

William Sanxay Green {see 71), born 12 
July, 1874, at Newburgh, living there 1906; mar- 
ried there, 5 October, 1898, Maud Peters, born 24 
February, 1876, living 1906. No issue. 



(75) 

Robert Chapman Whitehill (see 73), born 
13 May, 1871, living, 1907, at New York, N. Y.; 
married there, 17 April, 1890, Henrietta M. Peters, 
born February, 1873, living 1906. 



Their children: 



1 Maud, b. 13 May, 1905. Living 1906. 

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(76) 

7 Hattie Louise Whitehill (see 73), born 31 

December, 1877, living, 1907, at New York; mar- 
ried at Newbnrgh, 4 June, 1902, Charles Holly 
Smith, born 25 December, 1878, living, 1907, at 
New York. 

Their children: 

1 Charles Holly, Jr., b. 24 August, 1904. 

(77) 

7 Addie Marie Whitehill (see 73), born 29 

JVIarch, 1880, living, 1906, at Newburgh; married 
there, 12 July, 1899, George C. Smith, born 21 No- 
vember, 1863, living, 1906, at Newburgh. 

Their children: 

1 George C, Jr., b. 30 June, IpOO. Living 1906. 

2 Robert Douglas, b. 29 December, 1902, d. 24 August, 1904. 



(78) 

Ralph Waldo Whitehill [see 73), born 19 
May, 1882; married 2 October, 1907, at Calvary 
Presbyterian Church, Newburgh, Florence Eliza- 
beth Beakes, daughter of William Benjamin 

Beakes, born . . Living, 1907, at 

Newburgh. 

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FREDERIC SANXAY BRANCH 



(79) 



Generation. 



FREDERIC SANXAY (see 38), bom 27 
October, 1791, at New York, died 7 February, 
1875, at Iowa City, la.; married, at Cincinnati, 
Ohio, Sunday evening 15 March, 1818, Mary 
Whipple,* dau. of Preserved Whipple and Eliza- 
beth Hewes, born 2 February, 1800, at Richmond, 
N. H., died 10 June, 1827, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Their children 
1 



Theodore, b. 12 March, 1819, d. 15 December, 1892 {con- 
tinued 80). 

2 Emily, b. 5 October, 1820, d. 2 March, 1893 (con. 81). 

3 Charlotte, b. 24 February, 1822, d. 23 July, 1893 (con. 82). 

4 Henry Campbell, b. 3 January, 1824, d. 8 May, 1888 (con. 
83). 

5 Mary, b. 25 January, 1826, d. 11 February, 1826. 

* Second cousin to President James A. Garfield. 



(80) 

Theodore Sanxay {see 79), born 12 March, 
1819, at Cincinnati, Ohio, died 15 December, 1892, 
at Iowa City, la.; was married there by Rev. 

JMichael Hummer May, 1842, to Hetty Ann 

Perry (formerly spelled Peery), dau. of William 
Perry and Mary Hood, born 3 January, 1818, at 

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Cool Spring, near Lewes, Del., died 20 March, 
1896. Both buried at Oakland Cemetery, Iowa 
City. 



Their children: 



1 Theodore Frederic^ b. 12 March, 1843. Living, I906, New 
York. 

2 James Perry, b. 19 April, 1846, d. 19 May, 19OI {con. 8J,.). 

3 Henry, b. 20 November, 1853, d. 15 April, 1856. 

(81) 

Emily Sanxay (see 79), born 5 October, 
1820, in Boone County, Ky., died 2 March, 1893, 
at Elmira, N. Y. ; married, at Cincinnati, Ohio, 16 
September, 1840, by Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, to 
Hiram K. Wells, born 11 October, 1812, at Man- 
chester, Vt., died 10 November, 1902, at Elmira, 
N. Y. 



Their children. 



1 Emily Sanxay, b. 15 March, 1842, d. 10 November, 1902 
{con. 85). 

2 Frederic Walter, b. 14 January, 1845, d. 14 August, 1892. 

3 Howard, b. 8 November, 1849- Living, 1906, at Evans- 
ville, Ind. {con. 86). 

4 Charles Henry, b. 24 September, 1857. Living, 1906, at 
De Queen, Ark. {con. 87). 

(82) 

Charlotte Sanxay {see 79), born 24 Febru- 
ary, 1822, at Cincinnati, Ohio, died 23 July, 1893, 

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buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati; was 
married at Mill Creek, near Cincinnati, 22 August, 
1844, to James Calhoun, born at Boston, Mass., 22 
October, 1808, died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 10 April, 
1864, buried in Spring Grove Cemetery. 



Their children: 



1 James, b. 24 August, 184-5, d. 25 June, 1876 (con. 88). 

2 Frederic Sanxay, b. 19 April, 1847, d. 20 March, 1904 
(con. 89). 

3 John Lord, b. 20 July, 1849, d. 10 September, 1850. 

4 Charlotte, b. 1 June, 1852. Living, 1906, San Diego, Cal. 
(con. 90). 

5 Hamilton, b. 12 July, 1854, d. 29 November, 1855. 

6 Mary, b. 5 July, 1858. Living, 1906, Springfield, Mo. 
(con. 91). 

(88) 

Henry Campbell Sanxay (see 79), born 3 
January, 1824, at Cincinnati, Ohio, died 8 May, 
1888, at Madison, Ind. ; married (1) at Madison, 
Ind., 24 October, 1848, Ann Elizabeth Park, born 
29 December, 1828, died 10 January, 1861, and (2) 
at Madison, Ind., 11 September, 1862, Sally Park 
Stringfellow, born 10 April, 1837, living, 1906, at 
Madison. 



By Ann Elizabeth Park: 

1 Mary Park, b. 22 February, 1851, d. 22 June, 1851. 

2 Frederic, b. 26 March, 1853, d. 6 January, 1876 (con. 9'2). 

3 Eugene, b. 15 June, 1855, d. 5 August, 1858. 

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4 Helen, b. 30 November, 1857, d. 8 July, 1896. 

5 John, b. 30 October, 1859, d. 1 August, 1876. 

6 Ann Elizabeth, b. 26 December, I860, d. 13 July, 1861. 



By Sally Park String fellow: 

1 Lucy Agnes, b. l6 July, 1863. Living, 1906, at Indian- 
apolis, Ind. {con. 93). 

2 Henry, b. 1 February, 1866. Living, 1905, San Francisco, 
Cal. 

3 Sally, b. 18 September, 1870. Living, 1906, Madison, Ind. 
(see 9Jf). 

4 Olive, b. 1 June, 1873. Living, 1906, at Indianapolis, Ind. 



(84) 

6 James Perry Sanxay {see 80), born 19 April, 

1846, at Iowa City, la., died 19 May, 1901; married, 
at Keokuk, la., 9 February, 1869, Clara Stone, dau. 
of James Stone and Lucina P. Chapman, born 1 
January, 1850, living, 1906, at Iowa City. No 
issue. 



(85) 

6 Emily Sanxay Wells (see 81), born 15 
March, 1842, died 10 November, 1902, at Elmira, 
N. Y.; married at Evansville, Ind., 20 October, 
1870, Edward F. Lawrence, son of George F. Law- 
rence, M.D., and Abigail E. Lawi-ence, b. 

, , at Shelburne, N. Y., living, 1906, at 



New York. 

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Their children: 



1 Elizabeth Winifred, b. 7 February, 1875. Living, 1905, 
Cleveland, Ohio {con. 95). 

2 Henry, b. 4 June, 1877, d. 8 June, 1877. 



(86) 

6 HoAVARD Wells (see 81), born 8 November, 

1849, at Madison, Ind., living, 1906, at Evansville, 
Ind.; married at Evansville, 3 September, 1873, 
Betty Terry, born 8 December, 1849, at Evans- 
ville, living 1906. 

Their children: 

1 Emily Sanxay, b. 9 June, 1874'. Living, 19O6, Evansville, 
Ind. {con. 96). 

2 Helen Newcomb, b. 11 March, 1881. Living, 1906, Evans- 
ville, Ind. 

(87) 

6 Charles Henry Wells (see 81), born 24 

September, 1857, at Cleveland, Ohio, living, 1906, 
at De Queen, Ark. ; was married there 31 January, 
1904, to Nettie Jane Johnson, dau. of John Steven- 
son Johnson and JNIartha Jane Barrett. No issue ^ 
1905. 

(88) 

6 James Calhoun^ U. S. A. (see 82), born 24 

August, 1845, at Cincinnati, Ohio, died in Little 
Big Horn Battle with the Indians in Montana, 25 

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June, 1876, buried in National Cemetery, Leaven- 
worth, Kan.; married, at Monroe, Mich., 7 March, 
1872, Margaret E. Custer, dau. of Emanuel Cus- 
ter, and sister of Major-General Custer, U. S. A., 
living, 1906, in New York. No issue. 

(89) 

6 Frederic Sanxay Calhoun^ U. S. A. {see 

82), born 19 April, 1847, at Cincinnati, Ohio, died 
20 March, 1904, at Wellesley Hills, Mass., buried 
at Cincinnati; married, at Monroe, Mich., 24 Feb- 
ruary, 1879, Emma L. Reed, dau. of David Reed 
and Lydia Ann Kirkpatrick, born 30 July, 1856, 
at Monroe, where she now lives. 

Their children: 

1 Emma May, b. 29 April, 1882. Living, 1906, Monroe, 
Mich. 

(90) 

6 Charlotte Calhoun {see 82), born 1 June, 

1852, at Cincinnati, Ohio, living, 1906, at San 
Diego, Cal. ; married, at Madison, Ind., 22 October, 
1872, Major Myles Moylan, U. S. A., born 17 De- 
cember, 1838, at Amesbury, Mass., living, 1906, at 
San Diego. No issue, 1906. 

(91) 

6 Mary Calhoun {see 82), born 5 July, 1858, 

at Cincinnati, Ohio, living, 1906, at Springfield, 

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Mo.; married at Madison, Ind., 5 April, 1887, John 
J. Collins, son of William W. Collins and ^largaret 
Burns Gibson, born 8 July, 1859, Tremble Co., Ky., 
living, 1906, at Springfield. 



Their children: 



1 Margaret Gibson, b. 12 February, 1889- Living 1906. 

2 James Calhoun^ b. 18 January, 1892. Living 1906. 

3 Meriam Sanxay, b. 24 July, 1894. Living 1906. 

4 Charles Donnell, b. 25 October, 1897- Living 1906. 



(92) 

Frederic Sanxay {see 83), born 26 March, 
1853, at Madison, Ind., died 6 January, 1876, at 
Indianapolis, Ind.; married at Terre Haute, Ind., 
Caroline Melick, born , died 1878. 



Their children: 

1 Helen, died young. 

(93) 

6 Lucy Agnes Sanxay {see 83), born 16 July, 

1863, at Madison, Ind., living, 1906, at Indian- 
apolis, Ind.; married at Madison 22 October, 1884, 
Robert Craighead Browning, son of Robert Brown- 
ing and Margaret Taylor, born 13 September, 1860, 
living, 1906, Indianapolis. 

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Their children: 

1 Henry Sanxay, b. 21 January, 1887. Living, 1906, Indian- 
apolis. 

2 Margaret Taylor, b. 31 December, 1889- Living, 1906, In- 
dianapolis. 

(94) 

6 Sally Sanxay (see 83), born 18 September, 
1870, at ^ladison, Ind., living 1906; married, at 
Madison, 2 October, 1895, George Seneca Cowlam, 
son of George B. Cowlam and Mary McGregory, 
born 17 July, 1870, at Chicago, 111., living, 1906, at 
Madison. 

Their children: 

I George Sanxay, b. 24 October, 1898. Living 1906. 

(95) 

7 Elizabeth Winifred Lawrence (see 85), 
born 7 February, 1875, at Elmira, N. Y., living, 
1906, at East Cleveland, Ohio; married, at Elmira, 

II December, 1897, Edward Allison Thompson, son 
of Robert and Eliza Beatty Thompson, born 7 No- 
vember, 1869, living, 1906, East Cleveland, Ohio. 
No issue, 1906. 

(96) 

7 Emily Sanxay Wells (see 86), born 9 June, 

1874, Evansville, Ind., living 1906; married, at 

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Evansville, 7 July, 1898, George S. Ingle, son of 

John Ingle and Isabella Davidson, b. , 

, d. 3 June, 1903, at Evansville. No issue. 



RICHARD DAVENPORT SANXAY BRANCH 

(97) 
Generation. 

4 RICHARD DAVENPORT SANXAY 

{see 38) y born 10 August, 1794, at New York, 
died 1 January, 1870, at Richmond, Va.; married by 
Richard Channing Moore, the Bishop of Virginia, 
at Richmond, Va., 3 September, 1818, to Emily 
Tabitha Gordon, dau. of Alexander George Gor- 
don and Mary Morris,* born 22 November, 1793, 
died 9 September, 1874. 

Their children: 

1 Charlotte Isabella, b. 15 June, 1819, d. 11 November, 1904 
{continued 98). 

2 Mary Gordon, b. , 1821, d. , . 

3 Eliza Maria, b. , 1822, d. August, 1905 

(con. 99). 

4 William Gordon, b , , d. , 



* Niece of Robert Morris, signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. 

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5 Lewis Gordon, b. , , d. , . 

6 Emily Gordon, b. 26 January, 1826. Living 1904 {con. 
100). 

7 Keith, b. , , d. , . 

8 Richard S., b. 14 April, 1829- Living 1906 {con. 101). 

9 Sophia Gordon Taylor, b. 4 March, 1835. Living 1906 
{con. 102). 

10 Rosalie Morris, b. 20 August, 1839. Living 1906. 

(98) 

5 Charlotte Isabella Sanxay {see 97) y born 

15 June, 1819, at Richmond, Va., died 11 Novem- 
ber, 1904, at Petersburg, Va. ; married, at Rich- 
mond, 29 October, 1839, Robert Gilliam, son of 
John Gilliam and Hannah Sampson, of Perth, 
Scotland, born 17 September, 1796, died 9 July, 
1884, at Petersburg. 

Their children: 

1 Mary Eppes, b. 6 August, 1840. Living. 1904 {con. 103). 

2 Emily Anna, b. 5 October, 1841, d. 28 December, 1882 {con. 

lOJf). 

3 Lucy Skelton, b. l6 April, 1843. Living 1904 {con. 105). 

4 Charlotte Isabella, b. 7 January, 1846. Living 1904. 

5 Robert, b. 27 July, 1847. Living 1904 {con. 106). 

6 Eliza, b. 22 June, 1848. Living 1904 {con. 107). 

7 Sophia, b. 28 October, 1849- Living 1904 {con. 108). 

8 Lilla Macalester, b. 10 April, 1852, d. 2 October, 1859- 

9 John, b. 16 August, 1853. Living 1904 {con. 109). 

10 Richard Davenport, b. 14 August, 1855. Living 1906 
{con. 110). 

11 Ellen, b. 2 January, 1858. Living 1904. 

12 Charles Macalester, b. 21 January, I860. Living 1904 
{con. 111). 

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(99) 

5 Eliza Maeia Sanxay {see 97), born 

, 1822, at Richmond, Va., died August, 

1905; married , 1842, Lewis Gordon 

Keith, U. S. N., son of John Keith and Isabella 
Gordon, born , , died 1 May, 1846. 

Their children: 

1 Mary Isham, b. 8 June^ 1843. Living 1906 (con. 112). 

(100) 

5 Emily Gordon Sanxay {see 97), born 26 

January, 1826, at Richmond, Va., living, 1904, at 
Richmond; married at Prince George Court House, 
Va., 27 January, 1847, Robert Henry Batte, son of 
Robert Batte and Eliza Buchanan Gilliam, born 28 
April, 1822, at Prince George C. H., died 8 June, 
1888. Buried at Richmond, Va. 

Their children: 

1 Eliza Buchanan, b. 20 December, 1847. Living 1904 (con. 
113). 

2 Richard Davenport, b. 19 July, 1853, d. 8 September, 1905 
{con. 114)' 

(101) 

5 Richard S. Sanxay {see 97), born 14 April, 

1829, at Richmond, Va., living, 1906, at Brooklyn 
Hills, Long Island, X. Y.; married 12 December, 
1860, at Richmond, ^lary Elizabeth Wilkinson, 

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dau. of Archibald Wilkinson and Mary Downing, 
born 18 February, 1839, at Richmond, died 5 May, 
1882, at Huntington, L. I. 



Their children. 



1 Mary Gordon, b. 9 July, 1866, d. same day. 

2 Anna S., b. 11 July, 1870. Living 1906. 

(102) 

5 Sophia Gordon Taylor Sanxay {see 97), 
born 4 March, 1835, at Richmond, Va., Uving, 1906, 
at San Antonio, Texas; married, at Richmond, 19 
January, 1865, Adolph Gohmert, son of Carl and 
Charlotte Gohmert, born 19 January, 1827, at 
Landsberg-an-der-Warthe, in Germany, died 12 
October, 1886, at Georgetown, Texas. 

Their children: 

1 Emily Gordon, b. 7 November, 1866. Living, 1904, at San 
Antonio, Texas. 

2 Elvie Rosalie, b. 25 December, 1867, d. 28 June, 1868. 

3 Lily Sanxay, b. 11 January, 1870. Living, 1904, at San 
Antonio, Texas. 

4 Charlotte, b. 17 August, 1876, d. 19 August, 1876. 

5 Lucy, b. 17 August, 1876, d. 19 August, 1876. 

(103) 

6 Mary Eppes Gilliam {see 98), born 6 Au- 
gust, 1840, at Richmond, Va., living, 1904, at 
Petersburg, Va. ; married, at Riclimond, 2 March, 
1865, Lieut. William David Porter, C. S. N., son 

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L 



of Commodore William D. Porter, U. S. N"., and 
Elizabeth Beale, born 27 January, 1840, at Wash- 
ington, D. C, died November, 1902, at Peters- 
burg, Va. 

Their children: 

1 Elizabeth Beale, b. 24 January, 1867. Living 1904 (con, 
115). 

2 William D., b. 16 November, 1868. Living 1904 {con. 
116). 

S Mouina Paulding, b. 24 July, 1874. Living 1904 {con, 
117). 

(104) 

6 Emily Anna Gilliam (see 98), born 5 Octo- 

ber, 1841, at Prince George C. H., Va., died 28 De- 
cember, 1882; married, at Prince George C. H., 4 
January, 1866, Francis E. R. Hall, son of James 

Hall, of Sussex Co., Va., born , , 

living, 1904, at Prince George C. H. 

Their children: 

1 Robert Gilliam, b. , . 



2 Francis Everett, b. 24 March, 1870. Living 1904 {con. 
118). 

3 John James, b. 21 August, 1874. Living 1904 {con. 119). 

(105) 

6 Lucy Skelton Gilliam (see 98), born 16 

April, 1843, at Prince George C. H., Va., living, 
1904, in INIexico; married, at Richmond, Va., 21 

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September, 1865, George W. Tennent, Engineer, 

C. S. N., son of John Tennent and Dewees, 

of Philadelphia, Pa. No issue. 

(106) 

Robert Gilliam {see 98), born 27 July, 1847, 
at Petersburg, Va., living, 1904, at Petersburg; 
married (1) at Petersburg, 24 September, 1876, 
Sue T. Beckwith, dau. of T. S. and Agnes Beck- 
with, and (2) at St. Paul's Church, Petersburg, 29 
April, 1879, Mary Love Bragg, dau. of ex-Gov- 
ernor and ex- Senator Thomas Bragg, N. C, and 
Isabella Margaret Cuthbert, born 29 April, 1858, 
living, 1904, at Petersburg. No issue by first wife. 



By second wife. 



1 Isabella Cuthbert^ b. II January, 1880. Living 1904 {con. 
120). 

2 Robert, b. 6 October, 1881. Living 1904. 

3 Thomas Bragg, b. 27 October, 1882. Living 1904. 

4 James Cuthbert, b. 22 May, 1886, d. July, 1886. 

5 Herbert Bragg, b. 30 April, 1887. Living 1904. 

6 Mary Love, b. 2 July, 1888. Living 1904. 

7 Charlotte, b. 5 April, 1890. Living 1904. 

8 Lewis Gordon, b. 1 May, 1891, d, June, 1892. 

(107) 

Eliza Gilliam {see 98), born 22 June, 1848, 
at Prince George C. li., Va., living, 1904, at Peters- 
burg, Va. ; married, at Prince George C. H., 16 No- 
vember, 1865, Robert Carter Braxton, Lieut. C. 

200 



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S. A., son of Robert Carter Braxton and Louisa 
Gayle, born 17 :March, 1838, at :Mathe\vs, Va., died 
13 March, 1890, at Richmond, Va. 

Their children: 

1 Augustine Gilliam, b. 27 September, 1866. Living 1904< 
(con. 121). 

2 Charlotte Isabella, b. 30 July, 1869, d. 4 June, 1887. 
Buried, Richmond. 

3 Mary Louise, b. 5 September, 1871, d. 6 August, 1887. 

4 Robert Carter, b, 27 July, 1873. Living IpOi. 

5 Lucy Skelton, b. 25 August, 1875. Living 1904 {con. 122). 

6 Ellen Gilliam, b. 15 February, 1878. Living 1904. 

7 Eliza Carter, b. 25 April, 1881. Living 1904 {con. 123). 

8 Carter, b. 23 September, 1883, d. 8 July, 1887. 

9 Charles Corbin, b, 1 September, 1885. ' Living 1904. 

(108) 

6 Sophia Gilliam {see 98), born 28 October, 

1849, at Prince George C. H., Va., hving, 1904, 

near Petersburg, Va. ; married, December, 

1869, David Field Bowden, son of WilHam Francis 

Bowden and Rebecca Vaughan, born JNIarch, 

1839, Dinwiddie Co., Va., died 21 January, 1906. 

Their children: 

1 William Francis, b. 25 October, 1871. Living 1904. 

2 Mary Elizabeth, b. 3 September, 1882. Living 1904. 

(109) 

6 John Gilliam (see 98), born 16 August, 

1853, at Prince George C. H., Va., Hving, 1904, 

201 



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at Richmond Hill, Long Island, N. Y. ; married, at 
St. Louis, Mo., 27 September, 1886, Jane Sowers, 
dau. of Peter Jacob Sowers and Mary Porterfield 
Thompson, born 16 November, 1858, living 1904. 

Their children: 

1 Theodore Prewett, b. 27 February, 1888. Living 1904. 

2 Ariel Gordon, b. 19 June, 1889- Living 1904. 

3 John Reginald, b. 10 March, 1892. Living 1904. 

4 Richard Bathhurst, b. 15 July, 1894. Living 1904. 

5 Dorothy Prewett, b. 25 June, 1896. Living 1904. 

6 Lewis Gordon, b. 5 January, 1898. Living 1904. 

7 Raymond Maxwell, b. 16 January, 1900. Living 1904. 

8 Arthur Prewett, b. 19 January, 1902. Living 1904. 

9 Mary Decima, b. 23 May, 1904. Living 1904. 

(110) 

6 Richard Davenport Gilliam (see 98), law- 

yer, born 14 August, 1855, at Richmond, Va., liv- 
ing, 1906, at Petersburg, Va.; married, at New 
Quarter, Surry Co., Va., 24 April, 1882, Irene 
Jones, dau. of William Claiborne Jones and Mary 
Cauthorn, born 26 November, 1865, living 1906. 

Their children: 

1 Mary Cauthorn, b. 25 March, 1883. Living I906 {con. 
128). 

2 John, b. 10 March, 1885. Living 1906. 

3 Richard Davenport, b. 11 October, 1886, d. 23 April, 1887. 

4 William Claiborne, b. 6 October, 1887. Living 1906. 

5 Robert Skelton, b. 17 January, 1890. Living 1906. 

6 Emily Gordon, b. 1 November, 1890. Living 1906. 

202 



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» 



7 Bathhurst, b. 19 February, 1893, d. 1 March, 1893. 

8 Charles Edgar, b, 30 May, 1894. Living 1906. 

9 Irene, b. 12 October, 1895. Living I906. 

10 Richard Davenport, b. 16 March, 1897. Living 1906. 

11 Francis Meriweather, b. 30 August, 1899- Living 1906. 

12 Ann Bathhurst, b. 20 September, 1901. Living 1906. 

13 Alexander Gordon, b. 22 December, 1904. Living 1906. 

(Ill) 

6 Charles Mac ALESTER Gilliam (see 98), hovn 

21 January, 1860, at Richmond, Va., living, 1906, 
at Petersburg, Va.; married, at Raleigh, N. C, 28 
December, 1892, Blanche Bragg Syme, dau. of 
Andrew Syme and Blanche Bragg, born 31 Janu- 
ary, 1870, at Raleigh. Living 1906. 

Their children: 

1 Charles Macalester, b. 6 November, 1893. Living 1905. 

2 Mary Anderson, b. 25 July, 1896. Living 1905. 

3 Charlotte Sanxay, b. 10 February, 1900. Living 1905. 

(112) 

6 Mary Isham Keith {see 99), born 8 June, 

1843, at Richmond, Va., living, 1905, at Mcintosh, 
Washington Co., Ala. ; married, at Petersburg, Va., 
6 April, 1870, Emmett R. Vaughan, born 10 June, 
1841. 

Their children: 

1 Frank Stone, b. 22 January, 1871. Living 1905. 

2 Nora Effie, b. 14 August, 1872. Living 1905 (con. 124). 

203 



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3 Louis Eugene, b. 28 July, 1874. Living 1905 (con. 125). 

4 William S., born 23 June, 1876. Living 1905 {con. 126). 

5 Clemmie Mills, b. 17 July, 1877, d. 11 June, 1879- 

6 James Newton, b. 3 July, 1879- Living 1905 (con. 127). 

7 Marion Morgan, b. 3 March, 1883. Living 1905. 

(113) 

6 Eliza Buchanan Batte (see 100) y born 20 
December, 1847, at Prince George C. H., Va., liv- 
ing, 1904, at Richmond, Va.; married, at Brick 
House, Chesterfield Co., Va., 29 September, 1874, 
Thomas R. Friend, b. , , at Chester- 
field Co., Va. 

Their children: 

1 Eliza Batte, b. 26 June, 1875, d. 8 June, 1896. 

2 Thomas, b. 19 November, 1876. Living 1904. 

3 Emily Gordon, b. 21 October, 1878. Living 1904. 

4 Rebecca Scott, b. 9 December, 1880. Living 1904. 

(114) 

6 Richard Davenport Batte (see 100), born 
19 July, 1853, at Prince George Court House, Va., 
living, 1904, at Washington, D. C, died 8 Septem- 
ber, 1905; married (1), at Richmond, Va., Matilda 
Jane Fulton, and (2), at Washington, D. C, Belle 
Burn. No issue. 

(115) 

7 Elizabeth Beale Porter (see 103), born 24 
January, 1867, at Richmond, Va., living, 1904, at 

204 



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Brooklyn, N. Y.; married, at Baltimore, Md., 21 
June, 1890, James J. O'Brien, son of Patrick and 
Mary O'Brien. 



Their children: 



1 Mary Alice, b. 21 April, 1891. Living 1904. 

2 Morton Dawes, b. 4 April, 1893. Living 1904. 

3 Grace, b. 1 January, 1895, d. 23 July, 1895. 

4 Marguerite Rosalie, b. 10 May, 1896. Living 1904. 



(116) 

William David Porter, Jr. {see 103), born 
16 November, 1868, at Prince George Court House, 
Va., living, 1904, at Hyattsville, INld. ; married, at 
Washington, D. C, 3 December, 1891, Mary Eliza- 
beth Torbett, daughter of John P. Torbett and 
Elizabeth Bryant, born 11 January, 1867, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 



Their children: 



1 Mary Elizabeth, b. 30 November, 1892. Living 1904. 

2 Robert Gilliam, b. 1 December, 1898. Living 1904. 

(117) 

MouiNA Paulding Porter (see 103), born 
24 July, 1874, at Queens, Long Island, N. Y., liv- 
ing, 1904, at Lynchburg, Va. ; married, at Peters- 
burg, Va., 24 April, 1901, Marie Louise Parham, 
born 16 July, 1878, Sussex Co., Va. Living 1904. 

205 



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Their children: 

1 Mouina Paulding, b. 30 June, 1902. Living 1904. 

2 Andrew Bascom, b. 22 August, 1904. Living 1904. 

(118) 

T Francis Everett Hall {see 104), born 24 

March, 1870, at Prince George C. H., Va., living, 
1904, at Columbia, S. C. ; married, at Raleigh, N. 
C, 28 January, 1897, Frances Eugenia Heartt, 
dau. of Charles Dennis Heartt and Isabella Bragg, 
born 30 August, 1871, at Raleigh. No issue, 1904. 

(119) 

7 John James Hall {see 104), born 21 Au- 

gust, 1874, at Prince George C. H., Va., Hving, 
1904, at Greenville, Miss.; married, at Natchez, 
Miss., 15 June, 1903, Narciss Johnson, dau. of 
George Graddy Johnson and Julia Harding Mor- 
gan, born 29 December, 1878, at Lake Washing- 
ton, Miss. 

Their children: 

I Francis Everett, b. 3 April, 1894, Greenville, Miss. 

(120) 

7 Isabella Cuthbert Gilliam {see 106), born 

II January, 1880, at Petersburg, Va., living, 1904, 
at Petersburg; married, at Petersburg, Va., 5 Jan- 
uary, 1904, WiUiam Hamilton Crawford, M.D., 

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son of William H. Crawford and INIattie Jones, 
born 14 December, 1877, living 1904. 



Their children: 

1 Isabella Gilliam, b. October, 1905. 

(121) 

7 Augustine Gilliam Braxton {see 107), born 
27 September, 1866, at Prince George C. H., Va., 
living, 1904, at Richmond, Va.; married, at Rich- 
mond, 3 September, 1893, Louise Randolph Mal- 
lory, dau. of William JNIallory and Virginia Ran- 
dolph, of Virginia, born JNIarch, 1870, died 

30 May, 1895. No issue. 

(122) 

7 Lucy Skelton Braxton {see 107), born 25 

August, 1875, at Henrico, Va., living, 1905, at 
Brooklyn Hills, Long Island, N. Y. ; married, at 
Richmond, Va., 29 June, 1903, Reginald Bray, son 
of Alfred Bray, M.D., and Helen Cooper, of the 
City of Mexico, born 25 August, 1878, at Craig- 
hurst. Province Ontario, Canada. 

Their children: 

1 Reginald Braxton, b. 16 April, 1904, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

2 Henry Corbin, b. 23 September, 1905. 

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(123) 

Eliza Carter Braxton {see 107), born 25 
April, 1881, at Henrico, Va., living, 1904, at Brook- 
lyn, N. Y.; married, at Richmond, Va., 29 June, 
1904, Colson Everett Hamilton, son of Colson 
Carey Hamilton, of N. Y., and Lucy Cole, Lon- 
don, Eng., born 15 January, 1878, living 1904. No 
issue, 1904- 

(124) 

Nora Effie Vaughan (see 112), born 14 Au- 
gust, 1872, living, 1906, at Mcintosh, Washing- 
ton Co., Ala.; married, at Mobile, Ala., 15 June, 

1893, David Clarke, b. , , living 

1906. 



Their children. 



1 

2 
3 

5 



Hazel, b. - 
Emmett, b. 
Nellie, b. - 
Mary, b. — 
Cora, b — 



-. Living, 1906, at Mcintosh. 
— . Living, 1906, at Mcintosh. 
. Living, 1906, at Mcintosh. 
Living, 1906, at Mcintosh. 
Living, 1906, at Mcintosh. 



(125) 

Louis Eugene Vaughan (see 112), born 28 

July, 1874, at , living, 1906, at Richton, 

Perry Co., Miss.; married , 1896, Jo- 
sephine Taylor, born , . Living 

1906. 

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Their children: 



-, at Mcintosh, Ala. 
-, at Mcintosh, Ala. 



1 William Love, b. 

Living 1906. 

2 Clemmie May, b. 

Living 1906. 

3 A girl, name not ascertained. 

4 A boy, name not ascertained. 



(126) 

William S. Vaughan {see 112), bom 23 
June, 1876, at Mcintosh, Ala., living, 1906, at 
Richton, Perry Co., Miss.; married Georgia Ward, 
, 1903. 



Their children: 

1 Richard Reeves, b. 



April, 1905, at Mcintosh, Ala. 



(127) 



James Newton Vaughan (see 112), born 3 
July, 1879, at Mobile, Ala., living, 1906, at Mont- 
gomery, Ala., married, , 1901, Emma 

Johnson. 



Their children. 



1 Eugene. 

2 James Reginald. 



(128) 



Mary Cauthorn Gilliam (see 110), born 25 
March, 1883, in Surry County, Va., living, 1906, at 

209 



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Boston, Mass.; married, at Petersburg, Va., 17 
April, 1906, George Stother Bernard, son of 
George S. Bernard and Fannie Rutherford, born 
17 October, 1881, at Petersburg, Va., living, 1906, 
at Boston, Mass. 



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NOTES— ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA* 

Page 8, line 6, read make in place of " made." 
Page 10, line 4, read Fonteneau in place of " Fontineau." 
Page 12, line 24, read franqais in place of " franqnise." 
Page 13, line 6, read statue in place of " statute." 
Page 14, line 9, read MeslUre in place of " Meshine." 
NOTE 1. — Pages 17, 133. It should not have been embodied in the text, 
that Pastor Sanxay was ever an apothecarJ^ It was done, because Louis 
Audiat so states, in his Life and Works of Bernard Palissy, but he cites no 
evidence to support the statement, and, after considerable investigation, I am 
now convinced there is none. Audiat, doubtless, confused the Pastor with 
other Sanxays at Saintes who unquestionably were apothecaries. 
Page 21, line 12, read 1589 in place of "1587." 
Page 24, line 20, read Farnoulx in place of " Farrioulx." 
Page 25, line 3, read Brisambourg in place of " Brisanebourg." 
NOTE 2. — Pages 25, 133. This baptism was not of Suzanne Sanxay, but of 
her daughter, Suzanne Robelin. The statement, as embodied in the text, was 
taken from Audiat's Life and Works of Bernard Palissy, but it is clearly 
incorrect. (See Crottet's History, referred to in the text.) 

NOTE 3. — Page 30. The Duke, Henry de La Tremoille, was also Prince of 
Tarente and Count of Taillebourg. 

Page 31, line 7, and page 137, line 2 of (9), read Menus Fiefs in place of 
" Manus-fiefs." 

NOTE 4. — Page 31. Records lately discovered show that Anne Pichon 
could not have been Pierre Sanxay's first vvife. They show that a Jeanne Sanxay, 
daughter of a Pierre Sanxay — without doubt the Pierre above mentioned — on 
5 May, 1653, by contract, registered before Fleuresson, notary-royal, married 
Helye Thomas, sieur de Maine Moreau, chevalier de I'ordre de St. Michel, 
lieutenant et assesseur au si^ge de Taillebourg, par lettres de provisions de mon- 
seigneur le prince de Tarente, comte de Taillebourg, des 27 Septembre, 1652 
et 8 Juillet, 1654. Records, relating to many cases before said Thomas, as 
seigneurial Judge, under his appointment by said Prince, are now among the 
archives of the Charente Inferieure. The chateau du Maine Moreau was situ- 
ated in the Parish of Annepont, near Taillebourg, and the landed estate of 

^^ * For inter-leaf insertion at pages 210-211 of the book. 



ADDENDA, &c. 



Pierre Sanxay — the Blanchardi^res — was in the same parish. Jeanne died 
about 1662. There was one child of the marriage, a boy, also named Helye. 

Page 33, line 26, read Jacques in place of " Jehan." 

Page 35, lines 7 and 8, read January in place of " February"; line 19, read 
Elise in place of "Elsie"; line 24, read Leenhardt in place of " Leonhardt." 

NOTE 5. — Page 41. The desired authentic and decisive proof has now 
come, showing that Josue Sanxay was the father of Pastor Jacques Sanxay, the 
Refugee to England. It was found in the records of a presidial court (Saintes) 
now in the archives of the Charente Inferieure. These records also show that 
Josu6 Sanxay and Marie Vivier were married 12 April, 1639, by contract regis- 
tered before Pryrallaud, notary-royal; that Josue made a will, 3 February, 
1667, registered before Mongrand, notary at Taillebourg; that an inventory of 
his estate, after death, was made, 17 August, 1670; that Pastor Jacques Sanxay 
married Marie Moreau, 28 April, 1678, by contract, registered before Moreau, 
notary-royal, and that his sister Anne married Josu6 Pouliou, 20 May, 1671, 
by contract, registered before Chasseloup, notary-royal. Thus, beginning with 
Pastor Pierre Sanxay, an authentic genealogical chain, down to the present 
time (May, a. d., 1910), is established beyond a question. 

NOTE 6. — Page 43. The home of Daniel Meschinet and Ruth Sanxay was 
doubtless at or near Cherac, 16 kilometres southeast from Saintes. Their three 
children, and order of birth, were as follows: Etienne, b. 1669; Jacques, b. 
1671; and Daniel, b. 1674. 

Page 48, lines 10 and 11, read Maichin in place of " Machin." 

Page 50, line 13, read Loman in place of " Lomain." 

NOTE 7. — Page 50. As to the diary referred to, see Bulletin, 8oci4t4 de 
I'histoire du protestantisme franqais, Tom. 31, p. 62. 

Page 51, lines 20, 21, read Davenant in place of " Divenant." 

NOTE 8. — Pages 65, 151. It has recently come to light that Rev. James 
Sanxay, of Tetcott, was twice married, first at London, 22 April, 1720, to 
Charlotte Mary Caches, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields (London), his brother 
Daniel officiating. She was also of Huguenot descent. She died, and was 
buried at Penzance, 19 September, 1722. Charlotte, who was a daughter of 
this marriage, was baptized at Penzance, 24 August, 1721, which explains why 
the record was not found at Tetcott. 

NOTE 9. — Page 71. Edmund Sanxay, 12 April, 1758, was elected a mem- 
ber of the Court of Assistants of the Company of Surgeons, at London, " to 
have hold and enjoy the said office according to the late Act of Parliament 
and the By-laws of the corporation." This election was a tribute to his high 
distinction in his profession. A part of the court's duties was to examine 
candidates for positions as surgeons in the army and navy. At a meeting 
of the Court held 1 July, 1762, announcing his intention to withdraw from 
active professional service and retire to the country, he resigned from the 
Court. He was then 47 years of age. The Court had secured premises in 
the Old Bailey and had there built Surgeon's Hall, where its meetings were 
held during his membership. 

Page 82, line 26, and page 162, line 2 of (28), read British Army in place 
of " Royal Navy " and " R. N." 



ADDENDA, &c. 



Page 83, line 14, read Devon in place of " Devonshire." 

Page 92, line 8, read Guntker in place of " Guther." 

Page 103, line 1, read seven in place of " four," and make line 2 read 

Sanxay, only one son and a daughter, Maria Hoffman, are now living. 
Page 123, line 22, read earthly in place of " earthj\" 
Page 128, line 4, read Blanchardiires in place of " Blancharderes." 
Page 135, next to last line, read Marchais in place of " Machais." 
NOTE 10.— Page 136 (T) and page 138 (12). The children of Josu^ 

Sanxay, and the probable order of their birth, are as follows: 

1. Son (name not known), b. (probably) about 1640; d. before 1670. 

2. Marie, b. about 1645; d. 13 January, 1685. 

3. Ruth, b. ; d. before 1692. 

4. Jacques, b. ; d. about 1693, at Exeter, England. 

5. Anne, b. about 1651; d. 12 November, 1681. 

Page 137, lines 3 and 5, of (8) read 1708 in place " 1694," and 1701 in 
place of " 1693." 

Page 137, line 5 of (9) read sister in place of "brother." 
NOTE 11.— Page 137 (8), (9), and (10). That Suzanne Sanxay, wife 
of Jean Raboteau, had several children is now known, but not their names. 
One of them, a daughter, married Pierre Daugirard, " marchand, du logis noble 
de La Forest." After her husband's death, (about 1701), Suzanne was " tu- 
trice" for their minor children, and, in 1708, her son-in-law, Daugirard, was 
her " procureur pour le reglement des affaires des mineurs Raboteau." Dau- 
girard, as appears from the seigneurial records of the Comte de Tailleboiirg, 
preserved in the archives of the Duke de La Tr^moille, was living as late 
as 1724. In 1722 he rendered homage, as " procureur de la dame de St. 
Andreux pour raison de la terre et seigneurie d'Anepont et ses depcndances," 
he being then designated as " marchand, de La Rochelle." The record of this 
homage, in the classification of the documents of the seigneurial collection, 
was included with those relating to the Fief de La Forest. This great Fief 
comprised, among others, the Fiefs of the Blanchardieres and Maine Moreau, 
of which Pierre Sanxay and Helye (Elie) Thomas, respectively, were seigneurs. 
Its seigneur was Joachim de Jaucourt, who was also seigneur de Monestreux, 
St. Andreux, and other places. Between his family and that of said Pierre 
Sanxay there seems to have been close relations during three generations of the 
latter's family. From 1663-1665 notarial records show Pierre Sanxay, as 
attorney for said Joachim, and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife, in more than 
one instance. In 1673 Jean Fabvereau, (husband of Pierre's daughter, Fran- 
?oise), Sieur de Touchereau, and " receveur du lieux de La Forest," where 
he lived, was witness to the will of Benjamin de Jaucourt, escuyer, seigneur 
de St. Jermain, made at the chateau de La Forest, while on a visit to his 
brother Philepes, then the seigneur de La Forest. They were sons of Joachim 
and Clorinde aforesaid. And in 1674 Pierre Sanxay, sieur de Mayne Blanc, 
son of said Pierre, was constituted general and special attorney for Philepes 
de Jaucourt, said seigneur de La Forest. These matters show some of the 
conditions existing at Taillebourg. And this leads me to say that there, also, 
was the chateau de Taillebourg, seat of Henri de La Tr^moille, whose vast 



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ADDENDA, &c. 



domains, embracing much more than the county of Taillebourg, over which, 
as feudal lord, he exercised in large measure, the rights of sovereignty and the 
administration of justice, rendered him one of the greatest noblemen in France. 
Then, too, the Protestant Church at Taillebourg counted among its members 
the most of the seigneurial magistrates of the county, as well as a consider- 
able number of the magistrates of the royal bench at Saintes, and many of 
the nobility. Taillebourg was, therefore, a very interesting community for 
those of the Protestant faith, a faith which the Duke himself had also em- 
braced for a considerable period of his life, and to which his wife, Marie de 
La Tour d'Auvergne, remained steadfast to the end. These considerations, 
and his office of " fermier et receveur general " of the County of Taillebourg, 
may have made necessary or desirable the residence of Josue Sanxay at Taille- 
bourg, and thus explain his removal from Saintes, which took place as early 
as 1658. I will add, I now have in my possession a small document signed, in 
her own handwriting, by Suzanne Sanxay above mentioned, in 1705. 

Page 140, line 15 of (14), read Frangois in place of " Franyoise." 

Page 140, next to last line, read Goumild in place of " Gonauld." 

Page 141, line 27 of (16), page 143, line 11 of (19), and page 145, line 1, 
read PrdguiUac in place of " Prequillac." 

Page 142, line 4, read Mortagne in place of " Montague." 

Page 142, lines 12 and 13 of (17), and page 143, line 3, read Boibellaud in 
place of " Boibilland " or " Boybilland." 

Page 143, line 10 of (19), read Coudrecm in place of " Condreau." 

Page 144, line 23 of (21), read Beider in place of " Breider." 

Page 149, line 9 of (1), strike out ", circa 1675" and insert in place 
thereof the words Moreau 28 April, 1678. 

Page 151, last line, read 1713 in place of " 1613." 

Page 155, line 2 of (10), read Penzance in place of " Tetcott " and Corn- 
wall in place of " Devon." 

Page 160, line 7 of (23), read Cottage in place of "College." 

Page 161, line 2, read 1875 in place of " 1775." 

Page 162, line 2, read Hammerton in place of " Hammerstone "; line 4, 
read Antrobiis in place of "Armstrong"; line 8, read Forest in place of 
"Formel"; line 16, read Sekondi in place of " Shoude." 

Page 162, line 7 of (28), and line 1, next page, read Mottram in place of 
" Monttram." Same correction, line 3 of (34), page 165. 

Page 181, line 4 of {G6), read 21 in place of " 15." 

Page 184, line 5 of (72), read 1864 in place of "1854." 

Page 195, strike out foot-note. It is not correct, and note same on read- 
ing page 114. f{ 

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INDEX 



Albert, Sophia F., 86. 

— Lewis, 86. 

Antrobus, Edmund, Sir, 60, 115. 

— Edmund, 71. 

— Edmund E., 160. 

— Frances Ann, l6l. 

— Jane, 59, 150. 

— John, 72, 74, 76, 154. 

— John, 81, 157. 

— Maria, 61, 71. 

— Philip, 47. 

Arms, Sanxay, 60, 6l. 
Astbury church, 76. 

B 

Badger, Anna, 65. 

— Edward, Rev., 65. 

Barwell, A. H. Sanxay, Rev., 74, 
79, 82, 125, 163. 

— Maria Emelia, 83, 164. 

— Maud Sanxay, 165. 

— Nathaniel, Capt., 81, 83, l6l. 

— Osborne, 62, 77, 81, 82, 158. 

— Osborne, Capt., 81, 82, l60. 

— Osborne N. H., Capt., 82, 162. 

— Richard S., 82, 163. 
Batte, Eliza B., 204. 

— Robert H., 117, 197. 

— Richard D., 204. 
Belknap, Lydia, 93, 95, 179- 
Bernard, George S., 210. 
Bertrand, Suzanne, 23. 



Bishop, Bessie R., 97, 185. 
BoefBers, Duke of, 49. 
Bordeaux decree, 14. 
Bowden, Wm. F., 201. 
Boureau, Anne, 141. 
Bradley, Benjamin, 84, 157. 

— Charles, 85, 158-59. 

— Charlotte, 85. 

— James, 85. 

— John, 85, 155. 

Bragg, Mary Love, 120, 200. 
Braxton, Augustine G., 207. 

— Carter, 121. 

— Eliza C, 208. 

— Lucy Skelton, 207- 

— Robert Carter, 121, 200-201. 
Bray, Reginald, 207. 

Brisco, Suzanna, 77, 154. 
Brown, John, Rev., 94-96. 
Browning, Robert C, 114, 193. 
Brung, Anne, 29. 

— Jacob, 29. 
Burwash, church at, 79. 
Buchet, Suzanne, 147. 
Bussac, Chateau, 23, 



Calhoun, Charlotte, 111, 192. 

— James, Jr., 110-11, 191. 

— James, 109, 188. 

— Frederic S., Ill, 192. 

— Mary, 111, 192. 
Carleton, Guy, Sir, 88. 



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Carre, Ezechiel, 45. 

— Jeanne, 44. 

Cassels, Gilbert Kennedy, Rev., 

165. 
Chapman, J. H. H., 101-102, 

182. 

— Maria H., 103, 184. 
Charles IX., 21, 22. 
Charles II., 58. 
Cheam, 58-59, 61-62. 

— chureh at, 60-62. 

— Monuments at, 60-61. 

— school at, 58, 62. 
Cholmley, Lewin, 83-84, 159- 

— Mary, 83, 159- 

— William, 79, 155. 
Clay-Hidon, Manor of, 71- 
Clerk, Matilda, 80. 
Collardeau, 19- 
Collineau, Mathieu, 43-44. 

— Odet, 16. 
Collins, John J., 193. 
Comber, Thomas, 82, 159- 
Congleton, church at, 76. 
Coney, Addie, 100, 183. 
Corey, Anna Augusta, 98, 183. 
Court-Garden, Marlow, 80. 
Courtail, John, Rev., 54, 64, 78 

152. 

— John Jr., Rev., 78. 

— Lewis, 64. 
Cowell, Aline A., l65. 

— Sibyl A., 164. 

— Thomas, Dr., l6l. 
Cowlam, George S., 114, 194- 
Curtis, Edward, 89- 

Custer, Margaret E., 110, 192. 

— Maj.-Gen., 110. 
Cuthbert, Isabella M., 120. 



D 

Dacier, Madame, 47. 
Davenport, George R., l64. 

— Richard, 60, 80-81. 
D'Aussy, M. Denys, 48. 

De Richemond, M. Meshinet, 17, 
35-36. 

— family, 35. 

De Voe,*Sarah, 87, 169- 

Du Pourtault, Marie, 27, 140. 

E 

Edict of Nantes, 36. 
Edict of St. Germain, 12. 
Ellicombe, Maj.-Gen., 84, l60. 
Exeter, Eng., 51, 55. 



Favreau, Jean, 31, 137- 
Feast of Belshazzar, 81. 
Fickett, Jeannette, 90, 173. 
Firmin, Catharine, 70, 151. 
Foggan, Henry Guy, 91, 173. 
— Charlotte A., 92, 177. 
Foster-Melliar, Frances E. R., 
163. 

' Fourestier, Elizabeth, 28, 145. 
Friend, Thomas R., 204. 

G 

Gilpin, William, Rev., 59, 73. 
Girard, Rebecca, 32. 
Gerbini, Concetta, l65. 
Gilliam, Charles M., 203. 

— Eliza, 200. 

— Emilv Anna, 199- 

— Isabella C, 207. 

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INDEX 



Gilliam, John, 116, 201. 

— Lucy Skelton, 118, 199. 

— Mary C, 210. 

— Mary Epps, 118, 198. 

— Robert, 116, 196. 

— Robert, Jr., 119, 200. 

— Richard D., 120, 202. 

— Sophia, 201. 
Glover, Richard, 59. 
Gohmert, Adolph, 118, 198. 
Goodchild, Lulu C, 101, 184 
Gordon, Emily Tabitha, 114, 
Goy, Jacquette, 25, 133. 

— Pierre, 25. 

— Marie, 27. 
Great-Marlow, 81. 

Green, George W., 100, 184. 

— William S., 185. 
Gunther, Clarence Eugene, 

94, 174. 

H 

Hales-Owen, 85. 

— church at, 85. 
Hall, F. E. R., 199. 

— Frances, 206. 

— John J., 206. 
Hamelin, Philebert, 20-21. 
Harding, Joseph L., Rev., 

164. 

— Josephine, l66. 

— Osborne J., 166. 
Henry III., 23 
Ilewes, Elizabeth, 105. 
Hilton, Henry G., 91, 176. 
Hoffman, Cornelia, 97, 180. 

— Joseph, 97. 
Hollock, Edith G., 176. 



195. 



Dr., 



83, 



Hungerford Church, London, 36. 
Hurdis, James, Prof., 79. 



Ingle, George S., 195. 
Inglis, Charles, Rev., 87, 88. 



Jacson, Margaretta M., 162. 

James IL, 55-56. 

James Sanxay Record, 40, 44, 48, 

50. 
Johnson, Narciss, 206. 
Jones, Irene, 202. 
Jonkin, Mr., 50. 
Juniper, William, 70. 

K 

Keith, Lewis Gordon, 117, 197. 
— Mary I., 203. 



La Boysiere, Claude de, 15, 21. 

La Place, Pastor, 21. 

La Montagne de Lievre, 49- 

La Mothe-Fouque, Charles H., 54. 

— Gabriel de, 16. 

— Marguerite, 14. 

— Rene de, 13, 14. 
Lamplugh, Bishop, 51, 55. 
Lart, Charles E., 54. 
Lattay, Abel, 40. 
Lawrence, Edward W., 109. 

— Winifred, 109, 194. 
Lefevre, Jacques, 17. 

— Taneguy, tiQ, 40, 47. 
La Couryer, Prof., 77-78. 



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Louis XIV., 56. 
Loyalists, 88. 

M 

Machin, Benjamin, 48. 
Magezy Chateau, 23. 
Madeline College, 46. 
McAlister, C. W., 175. 

— Howard L., 178. 
Mclntyre, Eliza, 96, 180. 
Medici, Catharine de, 21. 
Meschinet, Daniel, 32, 43. 

— Etienne, 32, 43. 

— Marie, 32. 

Mesnard, Pastor Philip, 36. 
Middleton, Susan Ann, 83, l6l. 
Millspaugh, Jane W., 97, 182. 
Montaigne, Nicolas de, 29. 

— Raymond de, 29. 
Montmoranci, Constable, 20. 
Monttram, Mary A., 162. 

— Montague, 165. 
Morgan, Ephraim, 104-105. 
Moylan, Maj. Myles, 111, 192. 

N 

Naveau, Anne, 31, 137. 
Newburgh, N. Y., St. George 

Church, 95-96. 
Nieul, Chateau, 23. 
Norton, Ed. N., Jr., 178. 

— John R., 178. 

— Mary L., 1 78. 

— Skefiington S., 177. 

O 

Old Sanxay Signatures, 128-29- 
Orillard, Pastor Daniel, 32, 36. 
O'Brien, James J., 205. 



Palissy, Bernard, 18, 21. 
Parham, Mary L., 205. 
Park, Ann Elizabeth, 112, 189. 
Peach, Henry, Rev., 80, 156. 

— Henrietta M., 82, 159. 

— Jane, 84, 159. 

— Mary, 84, l60. 
Perry, Hetty, 107, 187. 
Phelps, Samuel F., 92, 177. 
Phillips, Marie A., 99, 181. 
Pichon, Anne, 30, 136. 

— Francis, 16. 

— Jehan, l6. 
Plymouth, 50, 51. 
Porter, Com. W. D., 118. 

— William D., 118, 198. 

— William D., 205. 

— Mouina P., 205. 

— Elizabeth B., 204. 
Post, Rachel S., 100, 181. 
Prioleau, Paster Elie, 44. 
Pouillou Josue, 43, 57, 139. 



R 



Raboteau family, 31. 

— Jean, 31,41, 137. 

— Pierre, 41. 

Reed, Emma L., 192. 

— Walter, 91, 176. 
Reformed religion, 8. 
Rivet, Pastor Guillaume, S3. 
Robillard, Suzanne de, 55. 
Roe, Eliza, 97, 182. 
Romney, 74. 

Rouspeau, Pastor Yves, 25-26. 



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INDEX 



Saintes, 12. 

— Reformed Church at, 19^ 21, 

23-24<. 
St. Bartholomew, Massacre, 21-22. 
St. Eutrope, Church, 27. 
St. Germain, Edict of, 22. 
St. Jean D'Angle, 40, 47. 
St. Olave's Church, 52. 
St. Paul's Cathedral, 69. 
Sampson, Hannah, 11 6, 196. 
Sanxay Arms, 3, 60, 61, 
Sanxay, the name, 8-11. 
Sanxay, the town, 8. 
Sanxay, Anne (Poillou), 32, 42, 

139. 

— Anne (Collineau), 43, 145. 

— Agnes (Hilton), 91, 176. 

— Catharine, 79- 

— Charlotte (Bradley), 47, 84, 

155. 

— Charlotte (Reed), 91, 176. 

— Charlotte (Sanford), 96, 180. 

— Charlotte (Calhoun), 109, 188. 

— Charlotte Ann, 172. 

— Charlotte Isabella, 112-lB, 196. 

— Charles, 90, 176. 

— Charles D., 98. 

— Christopher H., l68. 

— Claudia, 51, 55, 58, 63. 

— Claudia (Bradley), 56, 155. 

— Daniel, Rev., 57J 58, 63, 150. 

— Daniel, 77, 154. 

— Edmund, 60, 71, 153. 

— Edmund D., 92-94, 179- 

— Edmund, 96, 182. 

— Edmund S., 96, 180. 

— Edmund D., 100, 184. 



Sanxay, Edward C, 90, 125, 175. 

— Eliza M., 117, 197. 

— Elizabeth, 175. 

— Emily (Wells), 109, 188. 

— Emily Gordon, 117, 197. 

— Francois, 26, 27, 140. 

— Fran9oise, 31, 137. 

— Frederic, 104-106, 187. 

— Frederic, 193. 

— Frederick D., 97. 

— Fanny Maria, 60, 80, 157. 

— George W., 98, 183. 

— Guillaume, 13. 

— Hannah, 74, 76, 154. 

— Henry Maria, 62, 77, 81, 158. 

— Henrietta, 79, 155. 

— Henriette, 36-37. 

— Henry C, 112-13, 189. 

— Jacques, 36. 

— Jacques (Pastor), 30, 40, 46- 

57, 149. 

— Jacques, father, 37-42, 138. 

— Jacques (Pastor), father, 37- 

42, 138. 

— Jane, 69, 152. 

— Jane, 62, 72, 79, 80, 156. 

— Jane Louisa, 173. 

— Jean, 31. 

— Jehan, 36, 141. 

— Jehanne, 27. 

— James, Rev. (Tetcott), 40, 44, 

49, 56, 64-68, 152. 

— James, Rev. (Sutton), 69, 72, 

73, 151. 

— James (Army), 80. 

— James P., 108, 190. 

— John, 86-89, 169- 

— John, 89, 170. 



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Sanxay, John H. H., 98, 181. 

— Joseph F., 91, 172. 

— Joseph F., 91, 177. 

— Josue, 30, 31, 37-41, 136. 

— Julia, 175. 

— Lydia W., 101, 182. 

— Lucy Agnes, 114, 193. 

— Marie, 25-26. 

— Marie, 32, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 

48. 

— Marie Antoinette, 100, 184. 

— Mary (Courtail), 58, 63, 64, 

151. 

— Mary, 60, 6l. 

— Mary, 174. 

— Marye, 25. 

— Pierre (Pastor), 13, 14, 17, 18, 

21, 22, 25, 133. 

— Pierre (Pastor), his baptisms, 

24. 

— Pierre (merchant), 28, 29, 30, 

135. 

— Pierre (lawyer), 30, 81, 136. 

— Pierre (merchant), 31. 

— Pierre (Doctor), 36, 147. 

— Pierre de, 14. 

— Pierre (London), 36. 

— Richard D., 114, 115, 195. 

— Richard S., 115, 197. 

— Robert, 47, 72-73, 74, 81. 

— Ruth, 32, 38-39. 

— Sally, 114, 194. 

— Skeffington, 90, 173. 

— Samuel (Doctor), 28, 145. 

— Stephen Brown, 100, 181. 

— Sophia G. T., 118, 198. 

— Suzanne, 25-26. 



Sanxay, Suzanne (Raboteau), 31, 
41. 

— Theodore, 107, 187. 

— Theodore F., 34, 109, 188. 

— William, 80, 156. 

— William B., 99, 183. 
Sanxis, Raphael, 12. 
Saumur, college at, 40, 42. 
Shenstone, Wm., 85. 

Sire of Pons, 20, 26. 

Smyth, Thomas, Rev., 69, 152. 

Soulard, Estienne, 31. 

— Jehanne, 31. 

— Henry, 43. 
Sowers, Jane, 202. 
Steele, Agnes, 172. 
Stone, Clara, 108, 190. 
Stringfellow, Sally Park, 112, 

190. 
Swindon, 69- 

— church at, 69- 
Sutton, church at, 70. 
Syme, Blanche Bragg, 203. 



Taillebourg, 30. 

Tetcott, 60-68. 

— church at, 66-67- 

Thompson, Edward A., 194. 

Tonnay-Boutonne, 47. 

- — church at, 47-48. 

Towne, Leonard Ely, Rev., 83, 

159. 
Trelawney, Bishop, 51, 55, 63. 
Tremoille, Duke de la, 30. 
Tennent, George W., 118, 200. 
Torbett, Mary E., 205. 
Tryon, Gov.-Gen., 87. 



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V 

Veyrel, Samuel, 17, 29. 
Vivier, M. Alfred, 33. 

— Anne, 32. 

— Etienne, 32. 

— family, 34. 

— Jehan, 31. 

— Marie, 31, 32, 33, 38, 42. 

W 

Wells, Charles Henry, 

— Emily, 109, 190. 

— Emily S., 194. 

— Hiram K., 109, 188. 



Wells, Howard, 109, 191. 
Whipple, Mary, 105, 187. 

— Preserved, 105. 
Whitehill, Addie Marie, 186. 

— Hattie L., 185. 

— Ralph W., 186. 

— Robert, 103, 184. 

— Robert C, 185. 
Wilkins, Anna, 91, 173. 

— James B., 91, 171. 

— John F., 92. 

— Julia L., 92, 194. 
Wilkinson, Ann E., 117, 197. 
William, Prince of Orange, 55-56. 



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Page 8, line 6, read make in place of " made." 
Page ]3, line 6, read statue in place of "statute." 

Page 25. The statement that Suzanne Sanxay was baptized by Rouspeau 
was made on the authority of the late Louis Audiat of Saintes. A closer ex- 
amination, however, of the text of Crottet's history makes clear that this last 
baptism by Rouspeau was of Suzanne Robelin, dau. of Maistre Robelin, 
" apothicaire de Pons," and of Suzanne Sanxay, who herself was dau. of 
Pastor Pierre Sanxay. M. Robelin, her husband, was probably Francois Ro- 
belin, godfather of Pierre Sanxay, " avocat " (see No. 6, page 136). This also 
shows that the Suzanne of No. (3), page 134, was not, as possibly supposed, 
the pastor's daughter. 

Page 31, line 7, read Menus Fiefs in place of " Manus-fiefs." 
Page 35, lines 7 and 8, read January in place of "February"; same page, 
line 19, read Elise in place of " Elsie," and same page, line i?4, read Leenhardt 
in place of " Leonhardt." 

Page 58, lines 20 and 21, read Davenaut in place of " Divenaut." 
Page 82, next to last line, read British Amu/ in place of " Royal Navy." 
Page 83, line 14, read Devon in place of " Devonshire." 
Page 92, line 8, read Gunther in place of " Guther." 

Page 103, line 1, read seven in place of " four," and make line 2 read, 
Sanxay, only one son, and a dauyhter, Maria Hoffman, are now living. 
Page 128, line 4, read Blancliardiires in place of " Blancharderes." 
Page 135, line next to last, read Marchais in place of " Machais." 
Page 136, line 8 of (6), read after in place of "circa." 
Page 137, line 2 of (9), read Menus Fiefs in place of "Manus-fiefs," and 
in line 5 of (9), read sister in place of "brother." 

Page 160, line 7 of (23), read cottage in place of "college." 
Page 162, line 2 of (28), read British Army in place of R. N. 
Page 181, line 4 of (66), read 21 in place of " 15." 
Page 184, line 5 of (72), read 1S64 in place of " 1854." 

Page 195, strike out foot note. Without explaining how error arose, state- 
ment is not correct. 

Pages 65, 151. It has recently come to light that Rev. James Sanxay of 
Tetcott was twice married. He married, first, at I^ondon, 22 April, 1720, Char- 
lotte Mary Caches, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields (London), his brother Daniel 
officiating. She died, and was buried at Penzance, 19 September, 1722. Char- 
lotte was their daughter, which explains why her baptism was not noted at 
Tetcott. She was baptized at Penzance, 24 August, 1721. 

Page 155 (10), line 2, read Penzance in place of "Tetcott," and Cornwall 
in place of " Devon." 



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